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GOTO is a statement found in many computer programming languages. It is a juxtaposition of the English words go and to. When executed it causes an unconditional transfer of control (a "jump") to another statement. The jumped-to statement is specified using some kind of label, which may be an identifier or a line number depending on the language. At the machine code level a <tt>goto</tt> is a form of branch or jump statement.