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considered harmful
(foldoc) | considered harmful
A type of phrase based on the title of
Edsger W. Dijkstra's famous note in the March 1968
Communications of the ACM, "Goto Statement Considered Harmful",
which fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars.
Amusingly, the ACM considered the resulting acrimony
sufficiently harmful that it will (by policy) no longer print
articles taking so assertive a position against a coding practice.
In the ensuing decades, a large number of both serious papers and
parodies bore titles of the form "X considered Y". The
structured-programming wars eventually blew over with the
realisation that both sides were wrong, but use of such titles has
remained as a persistent minor in-joke.
[Jargon File]
(2014-06-21)
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considered harmful
(jargon) | considered harmful
adj.
[very common] Edsger W. Dijkstra's note in the March 1968 Communications of
the ACM, Goto Statement Considered Harmful, fired the first salvo in the
structured programming wars (text at http://www.acm.org/classics/). As it
turns out, the title under which the letter appeared was actually supplied
by CACM's editor, Niklaus Wirth. Amusingly, the ACM considered the
resulting acrimony sufficiently harmful that it will (by policy) no longer
print an article taking so assertive a position against a coding practice.
(Years afterwards, a contrary view was uttered in a CACM letter called,
inevitably, ‘Goto considered harmful’ considered harmful''. In the ensuing
decades, a large number of both serious papers and parodies have borne
titles of the form X considered Y. The structured-programming wars
eventually blew over with the realization that both sides were wrong, but
use of such titles has remained as a persistent minor in-joke (the
‘considered silly’ found at various places in this lexicon is related).
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