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This is basically a clickbait title at this point. After a now-famous CS letter by Dijkstra, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"[1], the title format expanded

This is basically a clickbait title at this point. After a now-famous CS letter by Dijkstra, "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"[1], the title format expanded dramatically. I'm personally a large fan of Meyer's '"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful'[2] as a explanation and satire of the genre. Wikipedia also has a decent summary[3]. 1: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p... 2: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

Stratoscope 7y ago
This letter was also a classic example of how writers don't always choose titles, editors do. Edsger Dijkstra's original title was "A Case Against the Goto Statement". Niklaus Wirth was editor of the Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) at the time and changed the title to the now infamous "Go To Statement Considered Harmful".
choward 7y ago
Explaining "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful