"Alex Martelli" <aleax@aleax.it> wrote in message news:10835172-6024-11D9-ADA4-000A95EFAE9E@aleax.it...
On 2005 Jan 06, at 20:16, Terry Reedy wrote:
[Knight's] title "Python's Super Considered Harmful" is an obvious reference to and takeoff on Dijkstra's influential polemic "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/
[title corrected from original posting and link added]
...or any other of the 345,000 google hits on "considered harmful"...?-)
Restricting the search space to 'Titles of computer science articles' would reduce the number of hits considerably. Many things have been considered harmful at sometime in almost every field of human endeavor. However, according to Eric Meyer, "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful
even that restriction would lead to thousands of hits inspired directly or indirectly by Niklaus Wirth's title for Dijkstra's Letter to the Editor. Thanks for the link. Terry J. Reedy