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1. kwerty+h6[view] [source] 2025-11-29 14:54:26
>>mindra+(OP)
“Terrible, horrible, no good” is the new “considered harmful.”
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2. Sharli+O6[view] [source] 2025-11-29 15:00:27
>>kwerty+h6
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...

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3. Markus+I9[view] [source] 2025-11-29 15:25:00
>>Sharli+O6
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.
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