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by breul99 3723 days ago
Titles containing considered harmful considered harmful
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I assume they are playing off the 1997 article "recursive make considered harmful"
It's from the 1968 letter "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by Dijkstra
Comments containing "considered harmful considered harmful" considered besides the point.
Everybody wants to be Dijkstra.
It's like taking The Lord's name in vain.

Used frivolously, it feels like blasphemy.