Java can GOTO hell

In the Java Specialists newsletter, Heinz Kabutz and Carl Smotricz have devised a way to write BASIC programs in Java with a series of case statements for line numbering, a GotoException, and horrendous formatting:

Carl told me that it was possible to program GOTO in Java. Naturally I was curious, so I asked Carl to give me an example. ... What makes me scared is that the code runs and actually works.

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