It is important to distinguish unmotivation, which may be associated with remarks such as “What's the point of doing a project?” (Interest and Relevance) from demotivation, which may result from difficulties experienced while undertaking the current project, or may be the residual effect of prior experience of project work (Expectation and Satisfaction).

“I have no Welsh, sir,” said she. “How is that?” said I; “this village is I think in the Welshery.”

Overall, experience in the two decades that followed the publication of Dijkstra's letter showed the folly of producing goto-laden code.

...and Madame de la Perriere — cruel to me when I was a little thing, a child, at her school, is my persecutrix still.