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This article trolled me so hard that I've deleted three drafts of a response, each one expressing my astonishment in more colorful terms. Forgotten? The author cannot possibly be serious. I was hoping for obscurity and I got banality.

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Ok, I recognize I've violated community norms by suggesting that this is a troll. I retract that. But what possible grounds might somebody have for saying that recursion is "forgotten". Proof by induction is highschool math -- doesn't the recursive approach naturally suggest itself for a lot of problems? I write Python all day, so stack frames are pretty expensive and I usually talk myself out of it.

And goto? "X considered harmful" is a pervasive meme. Does anybody really not know that X was originally goto?

And eval? Even if your language doesn't support it, surely the idea is obvious? "Man, I sure could get out of this tight spot if my program could write another program and evaluate it!"

Am I living under some kind of weird rock, where I find the suggestion that these are forgotten language constructs deeply disturbing? Come on, internet! Argue with me! I'm feeling punchy.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, other than some pedantic point about the title.

> Does anybody really not know that X was originally goto?

The original "goto considered harmful" paper was very much tongue-in-cheek.

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