Found 2 hits - Term: considered harmful, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [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.
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