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> From his 1974 paper, "Structured Programming with go to Statements":

> He was talking about using GOTO statements in C.

I don’t think he was talking about C. That paper is from December 1974, and (early) C is from 1972, and “The UNIX Time-Sharing System” (https://dsf.berkeley.edu/cs262/unix.pdf) is from July 1974, so time wise, he could have known C, but AFAICT that paper doesn’t mention C, and the examples are PL/I or (what to me looks like) pseudocode, using ‘:=’ for assignment, ‘if…fi’ and ‘while…repeat’ for block, ‘go to’ and not C’s ‘goto’, etc.