On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
> disconnect. i realize the 'is harmful' term goes back to Tom
> Christensen's famous (infamous?) article "Csh programming considered
> harmful", and is more a respectful nod to that bit of internet
> history rather than actually implying that it really is 'harmful'.
> but, much in line with the mention of old-timers above - not a lot of
> newcomers are familiar with that article.
Actually, the "is harmful" phrase, if anything, refers to Edsger W.
Dijkstra's famous paper in 1968 titled "Go To Statement Considered
Harmful." Tom's article about csh came many decades later. I guess
it makes me really old, to have read the Dijkstra paper, but not Tom's.
-Bill
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