Why should GoTos be bad?

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Published on 2010-04-09T13:39:56Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 13:43 UTC
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I'm using gotos and a lot of them. C++, PHP or COBOL - I use them on nearly all occasions where everybody else would use functions or even classes.

Yet my code is

Clear
Maintainable
Bug-free
Fast

So why does everybody I meet tell me about how bad gotos are? Are there any facts that show that they are "bad"?

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