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• considered harmful adj. [very common] 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...
• GOTO statement considered harmful" The unrestricted use of a GOTO statement is considered to be harmful because it hampers program understandability.
  Consequently, a programmer should justify every use of a GOTO statement....
• GOTO statement considered harmful" - E. W.
  Dijkstra, title to a letter in CACM 11, 3 (March, 1968)...
• COME FROM n. A semi-mythical language construct dual to the `go to'
  COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced label to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if the program ever reached it control would quietly and automagically be transferred to the statement following the COME FROM....
• eligion of CHI: n. /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] n.
  Yet another hackish parody religion (see also {Church of the SubGenius}, {Discordianism})....
• FORTRAN FORTRAN is the programming Language considered by many to be the natural successor to LISP and Prolog for A.
  I. research. Its advantages include: 1. it is very efficient for numerical computations (many A....
• black art: n. A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area (compare {black magic}).
  VLSI design and compiler code optimization were (in their beginnings) considered classic examples of black a...
• Classic C: /klas'ik C/ [a play on `Coke Classic'] n.
  The C programming language as defined in the first edition of {K&R}, with some small additions....
• eligion of CHI /ki:/ n. [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism considered harmful.