Legacy Dijkstra won the Turing award in 1972 for his advocacy of structured programming, a programming paradigm that makes use of structured control flow as opposed to unstructured jumps to different sections in a program using Goto statements. His 1968 letter to the editor of Communications of ACM, "Go To statement considered harmful", caused a major debate. Modern programmers generally adhere to the paradigm of structured programming.
Legacy Dijkstra won the Turing award in 1972 for his advocacy of structured programming, a programming paradigm t,hat makes use of structured control flow as opposed to unstructured jumps to different sections in a program using Goto statements. His 1968 letter to the editor of Communications of ACM "Go To statement considered harmful", caused a major debate. Modern programmers generally adhere to the paradigm of structured programming.