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leothekim

"XYZ considered harmful" is the other one I see in various papers and online posts. Boy does that one get mileage.

https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

If only that were titled "'Considered Harmful': Considered Harmful".

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‘Considered Harmful’ considered harmful: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the contrived title.

Another format I see maybe a little too much

There's also The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Colons.

I don't think those 'considered harmful papers' are actually computer science papers though? Things like 'Go To Statement Considered Harmful' were magazine articles rather than papers.

It was more like a letter to the editor. But the editor invented the title.

Probably should have been "considered as harmful". We would all be better off today.

IIRC "Communications of the ACM" isn't a scientific journal but it's not exactly light reading either.

See also, my earlier comment from a recent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19961776

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