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I more or less agree; "Considered Harmful" has a bit of an authoritative tone, and I feel like it should be reserved after long studies and whatnot. I think if

• fsckboy 4y ago
  the paper was written at a time when public safety warnings were first mandated to be put on consumer products, stuff like "smoking considered harmful" on a pack of cigarettes. It was a clever and winking reference to the zeitgeist, just as hyperventilating about tone is today, something like "Wirth and Dijkstra were guilty of privilege escalating themselves to microaggress against FORTRAN programmers"