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Frank Rubin published a criticism of Dijkstra's letter in the March 1987 CACM where it appeared under the title "'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful".<ref name="rubin87goto">{{cite journal|author=Frank Rubin |date=March 1987 |url=http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ParaMount/papers/rubin87goto.pdf |title="GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful |journal=Communications of the ACM |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=195–196 |doi=10.1145/214748.315722 |s2cid=6853038 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320002214/http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ParaMount/papers/rubin87goto.pdf |archivedate=March 20, 2009 }}</ref> The May 1987 CACM printed further replies, both for and against, under the title "'"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful?".<ref name="acm_may87">{{cite journal |author1=Donald Moore |author2=Chuck Musciano |author3=Michael J. Liebhaber |author4=Steven F. Lott |author5=Lee Starr |date=May 1987 | url = http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/1987/5/10097-acm-forum/abstract |format=PDF| title = " 'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful? | journal = Communications of the ACM | volume = 30 | issue = 5 | pages = 351–355 | doi = 10.1145/22899.315729 |s2cid=42951740 }}</ref> Dijkstra's own response to this controversy was titled ''On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence''.<ref name="ewd1009">{{cite EWD|1009|On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence}} (May, 1987)</ref>
Frank Rubin published a criticism of Dijkstra's letter in the March 1987 CACM where it appeared under the title "'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful".<ref name="rubin87goto">{{cite journal|author=Frank Rubin |date=March 1987 |url=http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ParaMount/papers/rubin87goto.pdf |title="GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful |journal=Communications of the ACM |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=195–196 |doi=10.1145/214748.315722 |s2cid=6853038 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320002214/http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ParaMount/papers/rubin87goto.pdf |archivedate=March 20, 2009 }}</ref> The May 1987 CACM printed further replies, both for and against, under the title "'"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful?".<ref name="acm_may87">{{cite journal |author1=Donald Moore |author2=Chuck Musciano |author3=Michael J. Liebhaber |author4=Steven F. Lott |author5=Lee Starr |date=May 1987 | url = http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/1987/5/10097-acm-forum/abstract |format=PDF| title = " 'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful? | journal = Communications of the ACM | volume = 30 | issue = 5 | pages = 351–355 | doi = 10.1145/22899.315729 |s2cid=42951740 }}</ref> Dijkstra's own response to this controversy was titled ''On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence''.<ref name="ewd1009">{{cite EWD|1009|On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence}} (May, 1987)</ref>

==Snowclones ==
* {{Cite journal | author = [[William Wulf]] and [[Mary Shaw (computer scientist)|Mary Shaw]] | title = Global Variable Considered Harmful | journal = ACM SIGPLAN Notices | volume = 8 | issue = 2 | date = February 1973 | pages = 28–34 | doi = 10.1145/953353.953355| s2cid = 2388792 }}
* {{Cite book | contribution = Letter O Considered Harmful | publisher = X3J3: ANSI [[Fortran]] Standards Committee |author = Bruce A. Martin | date = November 15–19, 1976 | place = Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY | title = proposal considered by X3J3 members}} ''(Full proposal text was included in post-meeting distribution; see [[fortran#Humor|summary]].)''
* {{cite journal | url = http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ | title = UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful | author = [[Rob Pike]] and [[Brian Kernighan]] | year = 1983 | journal = USENIX | accessdate=January 25, 2020}}
* {{Cite journal | author = John McCarthy | title = Networks Considered Harmful for Electronic Mail | url = http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/harmful.html | journal = Communications of the ACM | volume = 32 | issue = 12 | pages = 1389–1390 |date=December 1989 | doi=10.1145/76380.316015}}
* {{cite techreport| title = RFC 1627: Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some Practices Shouldn't be Codified) | author=Eliot Lear | author2=Erik Fair | author3=Dave Crocker | author4=Thomas Kessler | date=July 1994 | publisher=IETF | doi=10.17487/rfc1627 | doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title = Fragmentation Considered Harmful |author1=CA Kent |author2=JC Mogul |date=January 1995 | journal = ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review | doi = 10.1145/205447.205456 | volume = 25 | pages = 75–87|s2cid=207997774 }}
* {{cite web | url = http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/csh | title = Csh Programming Considered Harmful | author = Tom Christiansen | date=October 1996 | accessdate=January 25, 2020}} See [[C shell]].
* {{cite journal | url = http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/ | title = Recursive Make Considered Harmful | author = Peter Miller | year = 1998 | journal = AUUGN | volume = 19 | issue = 1 | pages = 14–25 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150330111905/http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/ | archivedate = 2015-03-30 }}
* {{cite journal | url = http://www.ddj.com/java/184405016 | title = Java's new Considered Harmful | author = Jonathan Amsterdam |date=February 2002 | journal = Software Development Magazine}}
* {{cite web | url = http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml | title = Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful | author = Ian Hickson |date=September 2002}}
* {{cite web | url = http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html | title = "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful | author = Eric A. Meyer |date=December 2002}}
* {{Cite journal |author1=C. Ponder |author2=B. Bush | title = Polymorphism considered harmful | journal = ACM SIGPLAN Notices | volume = 27 | issue = 6 | year = 1992 | pages = 76–79 | doi = 10.1145/130981.130991|s2cid=21140034 }}
* {{cite book | doi = 10.1109/INFCOM.2003.1208967 | title = Random Waypoint Considered Harmful |author1=J Yoon |author2=M Liu |author3=B Noble |date=April 2003 | pages = 1312–1321 vol.2 | journal = Infocom | volume = 2| isbn = 978-0-7803-7752-3 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.129.5604 | s2cid = 3779394 }}
* {{cite journal | title = Partially Overlapped Channels Not Considered Harmful |author1=A Mishra |author2=V Shrivastava |author3=S Banerjee |author4=W Arbaugh |date=June 2006 | journal = Sigmetrics | doi = 10.1145/1140103.1140286 | volume = 34 | pages = 63–74|citeseerx = 10.1.1.115.9060}}
* {{cite web | url = http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ | title = MD5 considered harmful today - Creating a rogue CA certificate|author1=Alexander Sotirov |author2=Marc Stevens |author3=Jacob Appelbaum |author4=Arjen Lenstra |author5=David Molnar |author6=Dag Arne Osvik |author7=Benne de Weger |date=December 2008}}
* {{cite book | chapter-url = https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1518701.1518835 | chapter = Ethnography considered harmful | author = Andy Crabtree; Tom Rodden; Peter Tolmie; Graham Button | title = Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | date=April 2009| pages = 879–888 | doi = 10.1145/1518701.1518835 | isbn = 9781605582467 | s2cid = 13646185 }}
* {{cite web | url = http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful-02 | title = IPv4-Mapped Addresses on the Wire Considered Harmful | author = Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino |date=October 2003}}
*Cory J. Kapser and Michael W. Godfrey (October 2006), "'Cloning Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful". doi:10.1109/WCRE.2006.1
* {{cite web | url = https://ewontfix.com/11/ | title = NULL considered harmful | author = Rich Felker (a.k.a. 'dalias') | date=July 2013 | accessdate = January 25, 2020}} See [[C (programming language)]].
* {{cite web | url = http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/star-trek-considered-harmful/ | title = Star Trek Considered Harmful | author = Paul Ceruzzi |date=June 2015}}
* {{cite web | url = http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200802/msg00072.html | title = GnuTLS Considered Harmful | author = Howard Chu | date=February 2008}}
* {{cite web | url = https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-03/msg00086.html | title = mdoc considered harmful | author = [[Eric S. Raymond]] | date=March 7, 2014 | accessdate=October 4, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190918180405/https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-03/msg00086.html | archive-date = 2020-10-03 | url-status = live}}
* {{cite web | url = https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf | title = Intel x86 considered harmful | author = Joanna Rutkowska | date=October 2015}}
* {{cite web | url = https://drewdevault.com/2016/11/24/Electron-considered-harmful.html | title = Electron considered Harmful | author = Drew DeVault | date=November 2016}}
* {{cite web | url = https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/documents/commandname-extensions-considered-harmful/ | title = Commandname Extensions Considered Harmful | author = Alex North-Keys | date=January 2016}}
* {{cite web | url = http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor | title = Tensor Considered Harmful | author = Alexander Rush | date=January 2019}}
* {{cite journal |author=Donald A. Norman | author-link=Don Norman |title=Human-centered design considered harmful |journal=[[ACM Interactions|Interactions]] |date=July 2005 |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=14–19 |doi=10.1145/1070960.1070976| s2cid=1698853 }}


==References==
==References==

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"Achievements considered harmful?" presentation at the 2010 Game Developers Conference

Considered harmful is a part of a phrasal template "X considered harmful". As of 2009, its snowclones have been used in the titles of at least 65 critical essays in computer science and related disciplines.[1] Its use in this context originated with a 1968 letter by Edsger Dijkstra published as "Go To Statement Considered Harmful".

History

Considered harmful was already a journalistic cliché used in headlines, well before the Dijkstra article, as in, for example, the headline over a letter published in 1949 in The New York Times: "Rent Control Controversy / Enacting Now of Hasty Legislation Considered Harmful".[2]

Considered harmful was popularized among computer scientists by Edsger Dijkstra's letter "Go To Statement Considered Harmful",[3][4] published in the March 1968 Communications of the ACM (CACM), in which he criticized the excessive use of the GOTO statement in programming languages of the day and advocated structured programming instead.[5] The original title of the letter, as submitted to CACM, was "A Case Against the Goto Statement", but CACM editor Niklaus Wirth changed the title to "Goto Statement Considered Harmful".[6] Regarding this new title, Donald Knuth quipped that "Dr. Goto cheerfully complained that he was always being eliminated."[7]

Frank Rubin published a criticism of Dijkstra's letter in the March 1987 CACM where it appeared under the title "'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful".[8] The May 1987 CACM printed further replies, both for and against, under the title "'"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful?".[9] Dijkstra's own response to this controversy was titled On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Miscellaneous - Considered Harmful". Archived from the original on May 3, 2009. Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  2. ^ Mark Liberman (April 8, 2008). "Language Log: Considered harmful". Retrieved August 17, 2009.
  3. ^ Edsger Dijkstra (March 1968). "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 11 (3): 147–148. doi:10.1145/362929.362947. S2CID 17469809. The unbridled use of the go to statement has as an immediate consequence that it becomes terribly hard to find a meaningful set of coordinates in which to describe the process progress. ... The go to statement as it stands is just too primitive, it is too much an invitation to make a mess of one's program.
  4. ^ Dijkstra, Edsger W. EWD-215 (PDF). E.W. Dijkstra Archive. Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. (transcription)
  5. ^ David R. Tribble (February 2005). "Goto Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective".
  6. ^ Dijkstra, Edsger W. What led to "Notes on Structured Programming" (EWD-1308) (PDF). E.W. Dijkstra Archive. Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. (transcription) (June, 2001)
  7. ^ Kanada, Yasumasa (2005), "Events and Sightings: An obituary of Eiichi Goto", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 27 (3): 92, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2005.37, S2CID 675701
  8. ^ Frank Rubin (March 1987). ""GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 30 (3): 195–196. doi:10.1145/214748.315722. S2CID 6853038. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 20, 2009.
  9. ^ Donald Moore; Chuck Musciano; Michael J. Liebhaber; Steven F. Lott; Lee Starr (May 1987). "" 'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful?" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 30 (5): 351–355. doi:10.1145/22899.315729. S2CID 42951740.
  10. ^ Dijkstra, Edsger W. On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence (EWD-1009) (PDF). E.W. Dijkstra Archive. Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. (transcription) (May, 1987)
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