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0 pointsschot5y ago0 comments

A minor historical note on this: the original title of Dijkstra's text was "A Case Against the Goto Statement" and it was the Communications of the ACM editor (Niklaus Wirth) that changed it[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

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bregma5y ago

In 2021 the note would probably have been headlined "Academics hate programmers who use this one cool trick!!"

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0 pointsschot5y ago0 comments

A minor historical note on this: the original title of Dijkstra's text was "A Case Against the Goto Statement" and it was the Communications of the ACM editor (Niklaus Wirth) that changed it[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

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bregma5y ago

In 2021 the note would probably have been headlined "Academics hate programmers who use this one cool trick!!"

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse