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I considered making some joke about how "considered harmful" essays should be considered harmful, but then I found that I am twenty years late. https://meyerwe
by jamesgreenleaf 6y ago
I considered making some joke about how "considered harmful" essays should be considered harmful, but then I found that I am twenty years late.
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- yccs27 6y agoIndeed. For most of the article, the conclusion could be "concurrency is hard" instead of "go is harmful".
- neolog 6y agoThe name is a play on the classic "goto" essay.
- ufo 6y agoMore importantly, it's directly referencing the contents of Dijkstra's essay and arguing that "go" is bad for the same reasons that "goto" is. In most of the other considered harmful blog posts the title is just a meme.