{"id":99,"date":"2007-07-23T07:56:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T12:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2007\/07\/23\/goto-humor\/"},"modified":"2016-06-16T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:31:50","slug":"goto-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2007\/07\/23\/goto-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"GOTO Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:mwsh=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/namespace\/mcode\/v1\/syntaxhighlight.dtd\" class=\"content\">\r\n   <h1>GOTO Humor<\/h1>\r\n   <p>For those of you who wonder why MATLAB does not have a <tt>goto<\/tt> statement, you might look at <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/c292.html\">this cartoon<\/a> in addition to reading an earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2006\/04\/01\/goto-coming-at-long-last-vectorized-no-less\/\">blog article<\/a> I wrote.  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