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== Sentence about the Goto statement ==
The side remark that the goto statement is supported but seldom needed appears superfluous to me (hence I removed it but my edit was revoked). Here is my reasoning:
- Goto is supported in many languages, but it is a relict and never used (with maybe some extremely rare exceptions) (in 10 years of Ada programming I never needed it). As the "exit" statement is supported, I would claim that goto is in fact _never_ needed.
- The goto statement also exists in C/C++ and many other languages, yet it is not mentioned in the respective wikipedia articles.
- This article is by no means a complete account of Ada, and probably can't and shouldn't be, and there are thousands of more important things to add than something about the goto statement.
- The sentence reads to me like someone's attempt to portray Ada as an old-fashioned language (considering that it is not mentioned in articles about other so-called modern languages), which is why I do not like it in the current form.
I would therefore like to argue that the sentence can be removed. Please share your opinion :)
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