alt Hacker NewsApparently 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...
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...
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.