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Nitpick: Dijkstra didn’t use “considered harmful”, Niklaus Wirth did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con
by Someone 4y ago
Nitpick: Dijkstra didn’t use “considered harmful”, Niklaus Wirth did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful#History:
The original title of the letter, as submitted to CACM, was "A Case Against the Goto Statement", but CACM editor Niklaus Wirth changed the title to "Goto Statement Considered Harmful". Regarding this new title, Donald Knuth quipped that "Dr. Goto cheerfully complained that he was always being eliminated."
Reading that same link, Wirth didn’t invent the cliché, either.
- osigurdson 4y agoNoted.