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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:

> You can misuse any idiom to write bad code.  With goto, bad code
> comes naturally.

I think this implication goes mainly in the other direction.
People who use goto aren't generally prone to write bad code;
it depends a lot on the person.  But people who write bad
code are much more likely to use (and misuse) goto than
people who don't.