Dijkstra's "Go To statement considered harmful" article spawned a whole series of "XXX considered harmful" papers by various computer science researchers in the

Dijkstra's "Go To statement considered harmful" article spawned a whole series of "XXX considered harmful" papers by various computer science researchers in the following years. This has even led to "Considered Harmful Considered Harmful" counter posts to the practice: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html One can argue that these "considered harmful" taboos were largely personal opinions based on the, in retrospect, limited experience with early computers and computer programming projects. Modern computers are over 1000 times faster with 1000 times bigger memory and many other improvements. This, for example, makes scripting languages much more practical than in the 1960's, specifically making run-time type inference and similar implicit/weak typing methods feasible for many programming projects. These typing methods clearly break many of the rules established in the 1960's but empirically make software development much faster in most cases. C++11 caved into fifty years of real-world experience and added type inference with the auto keyword -- for example.