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> If your name is Dijkstra and it’s 1968 feel free to use the phrase “considered harmful” The phrase "GOTO considered harmful" was actually used by Niklaus Wir
by LukeShu 4y ago
> If your name is Dijkstra and it’s 1968 feel free to use the phrase “considered harmful”
The phrase "GOTO considered harmful" was actually used by Niklaus Wirth, not Edsger Dijkstra. Dijkstra had submitted his letter with the title "A Case Against the Goto Statement"; and Wirth, as editor, changed it.
But also, it was already a journalistic cliché outside of computer science before Wirth applied it to Dijkstra's letter.