“Terrible, horrible, no good” is the new “considered harmful.”

Avicebron 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Mind-bogglingly poorly thought out to the degree of a cynical money-grubbing scheme worthy of the finest cambodian slave camp" was taken and is disrespectful to the hard work and education of said slave camp's operators.

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Sharlin 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Apparently the book whose title the phrase comes from [1] was published in 1972, four years after Dijkstra published "Considered Harmful".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Ho...

	▲	MarkusQ 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Additionally, their distributions were different. People who read Dijkstra circa 1968 started using the phrase in their own publications within a decade, whereas people who read Viorst (or had it read to them) in 1972 and following years had at least a few decades of further delay before publishing anything using the corresponding phrase.