It (goto) is unattractive certainly, and it's usage rightly deprecated. But for my money it's a mere misdemeanour compared to the worst sin in programming, namely global data. There are developers who would rather eat their own limbs than use a goto, yet happily employ global variables with lavish abandon, supremely oblivious to the misery they are imposing on those who inherit their code. I'm currently engaged in modifying a legacy VB6 app comprising around half a million lines of code. The many goto's therein are tiresome but just about tolerable. The multitude of global variables, all absolutely unnecessary, all toxic in the extreme, guarantee that an innocent change in one source file results in incomprehensible failures in a dozen others. I'll happily deal with all the goto's a naive developer cares to throw at me, if they would just understand and apply the simple notions of encapsulation and data hiding. Not that I'm justifying the goto mind, but there are far, far worse offences.

ZTreeWin & Take Command - yes, I am unbelievably old ;) But most essential of all - BeyondCompare. Don't leave home without it. OK, it's a GUI app rather than a proper one, but utterly indispensable.