[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

considered harmful adj. very common edsger w. dijkstra's note in the
   march 1968 "communications of the acm", "goto statement considered
   harmful", fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars text
   at `http://www.acm.org/classics'. amusingly, the acm considered the
   resulting acrimony sufficiently harmful that it will by policy no
   longer print an article taking so assertive a position against a coding
   practice. years afterwards, a contrary view was uttered in a cacm
   letter called, inevitably, "`goto considered harmful' considered
   harmful'"'. in the ensuing decades, a large number of both serious
   papers and parodies have borne titles of the form "x considered y". the
   structured-programming wars eventually blew over with the realization
   that both sides were wrong, but use of such titles has remained as a
   persistent minor in-joke the `considered silly' found at various places
   in this lexicon is related.

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

considered harmful
     
        edsger w. dijkstra's note in the march 1968 "communications of
        the acm", "goto statement considered harmful", fired the first
        salvo in the structured programming wars.  amusingly, the acm
        considered the resulting acrimony sufficiently harmful that it
        will by policy no longer print an article taking so
        assertive a position against a coding practice.  in the
        ensuing decades, a large number of both serious papers and
        parodies have borne titles of the form "x considered y".  the
        structured-programming wars eventually blew over with the
        realisation that both sides were wrong, but use of such titles
        has remained as a persistent minor in-joke.
     
        jargon file
     
     
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Harmful, definition of term: Harmful
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Considered >> C Words
Considered, definition of term: Considered
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