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 pac

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"