For such an influential letter, I don’t find his arguement all that compelling. I agree that not using go to
will often lead to a better structured (and more maintainable) programs, but I don’t find his metric of “indexable process progress” to satisfyingly explain why that is.
Perhaps it’s because at that time people would be running the programs in their heads before submitting them for processing, so they tended to use more of a computer scientist mindset - whereas now we’re more likely to use test cases to convince ourselves that code is correct.
Well good news then, since they were joking (I guess) - it’s a mod to improve Grim Fandango Remastered’s graphics.