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		heretoo on Feb 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does WebAssembly need the relooper algorithm, ... The article cites Dijkstra's "considered harmful" essay, which asserts that "goto" should be removed from "higher level" languages, not "machine language". Without reading the remainder of the article, this would seem to undermine any further assertions. UPDATE: after reading the article, it seems the opposite is being shown. my bad.

saagarjha on Feb 23, 2020 [–]

It’s brought up to prove the opposite. I would suggest reading it through, it’s quite good.

heretoo on Feb 23, 2020 | [–]

Yeah, I figured that might be happening, once I started reading further. Blame the reader.

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