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  considered harmful
       
          Edsger W. Dijkstra's note in the March 1968 "Communications of
          the ACM", "Goto Statement Considered Harmful", fired the first
          salvo in the structured programming wars.  Amusingly, the ACM
          considered the resulting acrimony sufficiently harmful that it
          will (by policy) no longer print an article taking so
          assertive a position against a coding practice.  In the
          ensuing decades, a large number of both serious papers and
          parodies have borne titles of the form "X considered Y".  The
          structured-programming wars eventually blew over with the
          realisation that both sides were wrong, but use of such titles
          has remained as a persistent minor in-joke.
       
          [{Jargon File]
       
       

  considered harmful adj. [very common] Edsger W. Dijkstra's note in the
     March 1968 "Communications of the ACM", "Goto Statement Considered
     Harmful", fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars (text
     at `http://www.acm.org/classics'). Amusingly, the ACM considered the
     resulting acrimony sufficiently harmful that it will (by policy) no
     longer print an article taking so assertive a position against a coding
     practice. (Years afterwards, a contrary view was uttered in a CACM
     letter called, inevitably, "`Goto considered harmful' considered
     harmful'"'. In the ensuing decades, a large number of both serious
     papers and parodies have borne titles of the form "X considered Y". The
     structured-programming wars eventually blew over with the realization
     that both sides were wrong, but use of such titles has remained as a
     persistent minor in-joke (the `considered silly' found at various places
     in this lexicon is related).