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The original was Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". Many considered that title unnecessarily provocative, but it ended up creating a new CS/progra
by cakoose 5y ago
The original was Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". Many considered that title unnecessarily provocative, but it ended up creating a new CS/programming meme.
Now, I see "Considered Harmful" as just a concise way of alluding to that style of article, basically saying "here are the not-well-known downsides of a commonly-used thing". Many "Considered Harmful" articles do not live up to that promise, but I think this one does.
Another title meme: "Zen and the Art of ...".
- unportant 5y agoThe funny thing is that Dijkstra named this article "A Case Against the Goto Statement". ACM editor didn't find that clickbaity enough and changed the title.
- akvadrako 5y agoThat original title is so much better. If articles like this would use it instead of the clickbait one it would give them more credability.