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- Discussion of 'wild goto' vs 'tame goto': wild gotos can jump into function/loop scopes, while tame gotos are limited; Dijkstra's criticism targeted wild gotos, but some argue he used ALGOL-60 which already had tame gotos.
- COBOL's ALTER statement allows changing a goto's target at runtime, effectively making it a wild goto; early COBOL had tame gotos only due to lack of nested scopes.
- The author plans to write a full story about COBOL and the history of goto statements.