It is not important, but I would argue even that, at worst its dated. The success of this paper seems to be what kicked off the trend of "Everything about <blah

It is not important, but I would argue even that, at worst its dated. The success of this paper seems to be what kicked off the trend of "Everything about <blah> every programmer [needs|should] know". Just like I wouldn't consider the "Goto's considered harmful" title to be vacuous despite the endless parade of copycats with "<Blah> considered harmful" articles and papers.