[Python-Dev] Re: Re: super() harmful?

[Terry Reedy]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message 
news:10835172-6024-11D9-ADA4-000A95EFAE9E at aleax.it...
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> On 2005 Jan 06, at 20:16, Terry Reedy wrote:
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>> [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
> <http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html>

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