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"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful
- rg 18y agoThere was nothing offensive or harmful in Dijkstra's original article about the go-to statement; on the contrary, it was brilliant and for many people (including me) communicated a deep and lasting insight in a flash.
- Hexstream 18y ago"There are those cases where such essays are written because the author enjoys grandstanding, and knows that use of the "considered harmful" format will get them noticed. A piece of this type is usually so over the top that it is easy to spot. For example, a piece titled "'Considered Harmful' Essays Considered Harmful" would very likely be a case of using the "considered harmful" format to draw attention for its own sake. We will ignore such essays in this commentary." The essay will ignore itself?
- gaius 18y agoYeah we talked about this recently, it's Godel's theory of incompleteness or something :-)
- thwarted 18y ago"There are those cases where such essays are written because the author enjoys grandstanding, and knows that use of the "considered harmful" format will get them noticed. A piece of this type is usually so over the top that it is easy to spot." I remember you tipped your hat to Jonathan Swift and used "a modest proposal" in the title when you wanted to get noticed and be over the top in your writing.