[sarah180]

If you're not Dijkstra, Hoare, Knuth or a principal contributor to the language's design, I would refrain from "considered (harmful|anti-pattern|…)."

It's hyperbolic and frames your position in a way that's likely to create poison. The people without enough experience & knowledge to evaluate your argument critically are likely to end up parroting it and looking like fools. The people who can evaluate your argument critically are going to scrutinize it much more carefully because you've taken an absolutist position.

Unless you have the knowledge & authority to really make such an absolute statement you do yourself and your readers a disservice.