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Re:Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++ by schot on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:34AM (#26340423)
A minor historical note on this: the original title of Dijkstra's text was "A Case Against the Goto Statement" and it was the Communications of the ACM editor (Niklaus Wirth) that changed it[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful

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Re:Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++ by bregma on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:33AM (#26341528)
In 2021 the note would probably have been headlined "Academics hate programmers who use this one cool trick!!"
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