goto considered harmless

I was reading Bjarne Stroustrup's sepples book and found this

One of the few sensible uses of goto in ordinary code is to break out from a nested loop or
switch-statement (a break breaks out of only the innermost enclosing loop or switch-statement).
For example:

void f()
{
int i;
int j;
for (i = 0 ; i <n ; i ++)
for (j = 0 ; j <m ; j ++) i f (nm [i][j ] == a ) goto found ;
// not found
// ...
found :
// nm[i][j] == a
}

>>1
The original "Goto considered harmful" complaint was about spaghetti code that consisted of gotos. Purists extrapolated this to mean that goto is some ancient hack that should be avoided at all costs somewhere in the late 90's.

10 PRINT "LOL"
20 GOTO 10

>>2
That purist was Niklaus Wirth. You won't find goto in Pascal.

Its an ancient meme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful#Related_essays

Your mom considered harmful

>>6
thanks

The scenario in OP's poast is better resolved by extracting the search code to a separate function. No

GOTO

needed and that's the standard. HIBT?

>>8
It must be trolling. No serious code would be that bad. At least not from any professional engineer.

>>8
No. Why create an entire fucking function when it's a single line? That is true idiocy.

>>10
You can make new functions in a single line.

>>10
Yeah, but now you have retarded `// not found` comment to document this stupidity. A separate function would do a better job at documenting this.

Also, what kind of retarded language doesn't have flat_map and filter or similar functions to do this kind of looping in single line?

The code in >>1 is very primitive and it is quite difficult for me to understand why experienced developer would write this. It is ok for someone who's been programming less than two years to do this stuff, but not for any serious developer.

>>12

Also, what kind of retarded language doesn't have flat_map and filter or similar functions to do this kind of looping in single line?

C and C++, of course.

Also, in these languages the performance cost of adding a new function just to allow for use of return instead of goto is sometimes significant.