Three jewels

This one is, I guess, going to be another classic in a few years. Andrei Alexandrescu stated in comp.lang.c++.moderated:
Well, for my money, using iostreams already puts the code in a low quality bracket :o).

The thread was about how people are dogmatic regarding the goto statement, so here are two more links:

• D. E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto statements" [PDF]
• Frank Rubin's response [PDF] to the Dijkstra's paper on "harmful goto", published in readers's letters, Communications of the ACM, March 1987, Volume 30, Number 3.