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> It's admittedly thought provoking but I have an uncomfortable feeling that some naive people might have followed his advice very literally, and off a cliff.

I am reminded of his GOTO Considered Harmful. It was radical advice in its day. Not too many languages immediately after actually tossed it. It wasn't always obvious at the time how to transform some structures efficiently. E.g. the designers of UNIX were fully convinced by structured programming but C still had GOTO. Even now there's GOTO in drivers etc. in the Linux kernel. People debate whether Rust should have it. Etc. Despite this everyone accepts the basic idea these days.