[eurolisp] Foo considered harmful [Was: Reply-to]

[Dirk Gerrits]

Nick Levine <ndl at ravenbrook.com> writes:

>    Perhaps because of this advice:
>
>      <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>
>
> They also have a "reply-to considered not harmful" page.

Here is one: http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml

Personally, I would prefer people stopped writing "Foo considered
harmful"-articles.  Especially if they mention Edsger Wybe Dijkstra,
because he did *not* write an article entitled "Go-to statement
considered harmful".  To quote EWD1308:

  I had submitted a paper under the title 'A case against the goto
  statement', which in order to speed up its publication, the editor had
  changed into a 'Letter to the Editor', and in the process he had given
  it a new title of his own invention! The editor was Niklaus Wirth.

Kind regards,

Dirk Gerrits