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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com writes:

> you may be in agreement but many posters on this thread are not.
> (just when did "evil" become a fashionable word to use in programming? 
> And why?

Why? Because "considered harmful" took too long to type.