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	"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful
		Because "considered harmful" essays are, by their nature, so incendiary, they are counter-productive both in terms of encouraging open and intelligent debate, and in gathering support for the view they promote.
		Usually such "considered harmful" essays are intended to draw attention to a little-known subject about which the author is passionate, or to highlight what the author feels to be a poor decision by someone else.
		The writing of a "considered harmful" essay often serves to inflame whatever debate is in progress, and thus makes it that much harder for a solution to be found through any means.
	meyerweb.com /eric/comment/chech.html (1229 words)

	jargon, node: considered harmful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		considered harmful /adj./ Edsger W. Dijkstra's note in the March 1968 "Communications of the ACM", "Goto Statement Considered Harmful", fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars (text at http://www.acm.org/classics).
		Amusingly, the ACM considered the resulting acrimony sufficiently harmful that it will (by policy) no longer print an article taking so assertive a position against a coding practice.
		In the ensuing decades, a large number of both serious papers and parodies have borne titles of the form "X considered Y".
	www.jargon.net /jargonfile/c/consideredharmful.html (119 words)

	Considered harmful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In computer science and related disciplines, "considered harmful" is a phrase popularly used in the titles of diatribes and other critical essays.
		Frank Rubin published a criticism of Dijkstra's letter in the March 1987 Communications of the ACM titled "'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful".
		"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful (Eric A. Meyer, Dec 2002).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Considered_harmful (277 words)

	Go To Statement Considered Harmful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.
		Let us now consider how we can characterize the progress of a process.
		With the inclusion of procedures we can characterize the progress of the process via a sequence of textual indices, the length of this sequence being equal to the dynamic depth of procedure calling.
	www.acm.org /classics/oct95 (1231 words)

	GoTo considered Harmfull
		Although the setting of the problem might seem somewhat academic at first, the author trusts that anyone familiar with the logical problems that arise in computer coupling will appreciate the significance of the fact that this problem indeed can be solved.
		The Problem To begin, consider N computers, each engaged in a process which, for our aims, can be regarded as cyclic.
		In each of the cycles a so-called "critical section" occurs and the computers have to be programmed in such a way that at any moment only one of these N cyclic processes is in its critical section.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/papers/goto_considered_harmful.htm (2083 words)

	uiGarden.net - Weaving Usability and Cultures: Human-Centered Design Considered Harmful
		Consider art, where much time is spent learning the vagaries of the media.
		Consider the dynamic nature of applications, where any task requires a sequence of operations, and activities can be comprised of multiple, overlapping tasks.
		Sometimes it is worthwhile to re-examine them, to consider the pros and cons and see whether they might be modified or even replaced.
	uigarden.net /english/human-centered-design-considered-harmful (3321 words)

	Use of NFS Considered Harmful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The idea is to avoid the overhead of putting a process into a suspended state until data is available, because the data is always either available or not.
		Consider the performance implications of sharing even an extremely fast hard disk with hundreds of other users.
		NFS is generally considered an easy means of solving data sharing problems because it is often already configured and installed.
	www.time-travellers.org /shane/papers/NFS_considered_harmful.html (4763 words)

	Csh Programming Considered Harmful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From: Tom Christiansen Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell, comp.unix.questions, comp.unix.programmer, comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Subject: Csh Programming Considered Harmful Date: 6 Oct 1996 14:03:18 GMT Message-ID: <538e76$8uq$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> Archive-name: unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot Version: $Id: csh-faq,v 1.7 95/09/28 12:52:17 tchrist Exp Locker: tchrist $ The following periodic article answers in excruciating detail the frequently asked question "Why shouldn't I program in csh?".
		Consider the common C construct: if (p andand p->member) Undefined variables are not fatal errors in the Bourne shell, so this issue does not arise there.
		Consider this statement: exit (i) Of course, they really meant exit (1) or just exit 1 Either shell will complain about this.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot (2440 words)

	PKI considered harmful
		Presumably the certificate is considered a gate-keeping operation to enter a user into the system, but the actual cryptographic effect of the certificate's signature from a certificate authority now seems lost.
		Consider the policies of popular distributors such as browser manufacturers: the inclusion of a CA has (at least historically) been justified solely on the basis of the audit of the CA, even though the audit process would generally stress that the user herself should not accept an audit on face value.
		It was also considered that if there were such enormous amounts of personal information, the certificate was no longer being used for just authenticating the person, but was, in fact, identifying the person (which is another way of viewing the significant privacy and liability issues).
	iang.org /ssl/pki_considered_harmful.html (12065 words)

	Considered Harmful — Peter Ahé's Weblog
		The benefits should be clear and I like to think if Dijkstra had been consulted on generics he would have said: "not having generic types should be considered harmful".
		Ken Arnold doesn't understand generics and thus he suggest that generics should be considered harmful.
		We did consider a new addition to the language, statically type-safe arrays.
	blogs.sun.com /ahe/entry/considered_harmful (1829 words)

	Bandwagons Considered Harmful
		Those advocating curricular change must articulate their educational goals fully and consider explicitly what effect on those goals they expect the change to have; they must not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
		Changes in introductory curricula are made too often as a hasty attempt to jump on a current bandwagon, without thoughtful consideration of pedagogical goals and the value of the topics being supplanted.
		But those promoting them must be prepared to consider and address the potential side effects and tradeoffs of their innovations.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~kay/pubs/bandwagons.html (2708 words)

	with Statement Considered Harmful » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
		Thanks for publishing this useful piece of advice, as it should be known by all JS developers.
		If you are referencing a global variable (or any variable not in the top scope, that is the target of the “with” statement), a deeper scope chain will take more time to do a lookup, and this is where performance degradation can be caused by the with statement.
		However if we consider Douglas’s example, when JS machine encounters o.bing, it must first do a lookup in the current scope for “o” and then it must do a lookup in the o object for “bing”, so it must do two lookups.
	yuiblog.com /blog/2006/04/11/with-statement-considered-harmful (1441 words)

	About (Weblogging Considered Harmful: Reloaded) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		(Years afterwards, a contrary view was uttered in a CACM letter called, inevitably, ‘Goto considered harmful’ considered harmful''.
		When I began to take an interest in weblogs back in 1999, and started my own on Pitas in early 2000, that's the name I decided to go with.
		I started using variations on the name (harmful, harmfulguy) as a userid on other weblog-related sites, and then other sites as well.
	www.considered-harmful.org /about.html (262 words)

	Weblogging Considered Harmful
		Have any of these companies considered the possibility that if they showed some respect for the consumer, the consumer might show some respect for them? Instead, media corporations seem to be treating their customers with complete and utter contempt by basing their distribution systems on the idea that all of said customers are potential crooks.
		The Register appears to be getting some grief over its new design, though not quite as negative as the response to Salon's recent redesign.
		The few people to whom I've shown a new Considered Harmful design have been pretty positive about it, and this existing page is pretty bland, but I still worry.
	c_harmful.pitas.com (1515 words)

	CVS Considered Harmful
		Directories are a small issue, as -P mostly takes care of it, and moving files by adding it in its new place while removing it at the same time from the old is just as confusing (regarding logs and history) as systems that explicitly allow moving files, no less and no more.
		RCS considered harmful, posted 16 Jul 2002 at 13:49 CST by braden » (Journeyer)
		Most people have learned to work around the various quirks and it certainly is not a harmful tool in any way whatsoever.
	www.advogato.org /article/519.html (2088 words)

	<FONT FACE> considered harmful
		Time to consider a real character encoding, which will be able to carry your words in plain text, whatever the medium (mail, news, chat, etc.) HTML is about enriching text with hyperlinks and embellishments, but the underlying plain text should already have its proper meaning before HTML markup comes into play.
		If you think you are doing some language community a service by making up fonts and using them as described above to publish on the Web, please think again.
		Consider instead keeping your bytes, characters and glyphs as separate things:
	alis.isoc.org /web_ml/html/fontface.en.html (1073 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Java's <i>new</i> Considered Harmful \| February 28, 2002
		If you believe in classes — that is, you believe that it is conceptually clearer to distinguish between classes and objects — then prototypes are a bit unpalatable because they blur that distinction.
		For instance, consider the server framework previously described, which creates a new connection object for each client.
		In short, new should be considered harmful for the same reason that goto is considered harmful — although it is an indispensable low-level tool, it must be used with care or hidden behind abstractions.
	www.ddj.com /dept/java/184405016 (4450 words)

	Sam Ruby: AJAX Considered Harmful
		Adam: while I tend to side with Roy, for the moment, let’s go with your definition. The problem with the current AJAX toolkits is that they don’t allow people to pick the verb, so without them realizing it, they are creating “bookmarkable” URIs for all operations, including unsafe ones.
		Wayne Burkett : Sam Ruby: AJAX Considered Harmful - "Standardizing improves interoperability, and the reason why I am suggesting UTF-8 is that it is backwards compatible with ASCII, can express the full range of the Unicode character set, and is...
		AJAX Considered Harmful: Sam Ruby mit einigen kritischen Worten zu Ajax....
	www.intertwingly.net /blog/2005/03/16/AJAX-Considered-Harmful (3013 words)

	W&B Scientific - RAID No Longer Considered Harmful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Flip-flop gates and A* search, while typical in theory, have not until recently been considered structured.
		The lack of influence on algorithms of this finding has been considered confirmed.
		Furthermore, after years of important research into 802.11 mesh networks, we disprove the deployment of replication, which embodies the unfortunate principles of electrical engineering.
	wbsci.org /Miscellaneous/193/RAID-No-Longer-Considered-Harmful.html (2299 words)

	Considered Harmful: SPF...
		A variety of topics on which I think a particular subject is "considered harmful"
		Indeed, don't think that this will do anything other than cause more harm than it could possibly solve.
		At least, not until they resolve some of the implementation issues and use more secure methods for reliably transmitting the information they want to publish.
	bradknowles.typepad.com /considered_harmful/2004/05/spf.html (949 words)

	Overloading considered Harmful - Java Tutorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There are several problems related to this, but first let's take another look on the small code example presented in a former edition of this newsletter in order to really get a feel for what it's like when methods being called are not independent of the reference types being used for the calls.
		A minimal modification allows us to focus on the ugly side of overloading: The program still tells us which method gets actually called, but on top of that also delivers rather strong comments when overloading is caught to harm our ability to reason about the client code without knowing the server classes.
		Basically, we have two fixed instances, which will play always the same roles: one serving as call target, the other serving as argument.
	www.roseindia.net /javatutorials/overloading_considered_harmful.shtml (3063 words)

	Ken Arnold's Blog: Generics Considered Harmful
		Sun better considers implementing generics at the VM level.
		Now, consider that we are 10 months past 1.5.0-FCS, and the adoption of Java5 is still modest (at least in my POV).
		I think it was worth the trouble, to take a type-theory-savvy bunch of programmers to design a generic standard library, given the million of people who will reuse their code.
	weblogs.java.net /blog/arnold/archive/2005/06/generics_consid_1.html (6981 words)

	"Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Reply-To munging is a good idea, I hope I can change your mind.
		Reply-To munging is not merely benign, it is harmful.
		Reply-To munging by saying, "All responses should go directly to the list anyway." This is arrogant.
	www.unicom.com /pw/reply-to-harmful.html (1695 words)

	Meetings considered harmful - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
		This is Signal vs. Noise, a weblog by 37signals about entrepreneurship, design, experience, simplicity, constraints, pop culture, our products, products we like, and more.
		Meetings don’t have to be harmful, but I’ll admit they often are.
		Signal vs. Noise’s schtick-lik public goring of sacred cows considered harmful.
	37signals.com /svn/archives2/meetings_considered_harmful.php (7268 words)

	Weblogging Considered Harmful: Reloaded
		There are a handful of incremental improvements to the full-sized iPod: Brighter screens, longer-lasting batteries, a $50 price drop, and a boost to 80GB in the higher-capacity model.
		I'm still not clear on whether these are considered a new generation of iPods.
		Nothing I'd go out of my way to upgrade, but if I had actually bought a new iPod a couple of weeks ago (instead of scraping in just under the 6-month warranty for a free replacement), I'd be kicking myself.
	www.considered-harmful.org (1535 words)

	Fabrizio Oddone - Exceptions Considered Not Harmful
		Since I used the negated form, "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful by Eric A. Meyer should not apply.
		Incidentally, somebody else already came up with Exceptions Not Considered Harmful so I had to use a slightly different title, not mentioning to write a rather more urbane rebuttal.
		Most people who agree with me on this topic and have been reading Joel's articles since the inception of Joel On Software may be asking themselves why in the world a smart guy like him does not grok exceptions.
	www.dslextreme.com /users/fabrizioo/rant/en/except.html (1520 words)

	Ajaxian » Javascript Associative Arrays considered harmful
		You can’t really consider JavaScript objects as analogous to HashTables etc. because the keys may only be strings.
		If you try and use Objects as keys then all Objects will map to the same value, since when you assign a non-string key JavaScript just calls toString on it, meaning all your keys will simply be stored as “[object Object]”.
		Some might argue extending any of the built-in objects’ prototypes is bad form, but those people are wrong.
	ajaxian.com /archives/javascript-associative-arrays-considered-harmful (1357 words)

	Design Patterns Considered Harmful
		Too much flexibility in a design can be harmful.
		Practicing the forms correctly leads to insight into the techniques and gets the body used to moving in ways that hopefully make the person a better fighter.
		However, when you find yourself in an actual fight to defend yourself from bodily harm, if you go into one of your forms you'll get your butt kicked.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?DesignPatternsConsideredHarmful (2615 words)

	Default Instance Considered Harmful...?
		We considered introducing a single instance/multi-instance mode switch into Windows Forms, but that would mean that changing the instancing mode of a form would cause drastic changes in the way the form was used in code.
		Thus, it would be vital to choose up-front whether a form was going to be single instance or multi-instance, and woe be unto the developer who chose incorrectly.
		The other major idea we considered was introducing some kind of configurable warning into the product that would allow people to turn the use of a default instance into a warning or error.
	www.panopticoncentral.net /archive/2005/04/08/8279.aspx (3677 words)

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