Good ideas, through the looking glass [computing history]

@article{Wirth2006GoodIT,
  title={Good ideas, through the looking glass [computing history]},
  author={Niklaus Wirth},
  journal={Computer},
  year={2006},
  volume={39},
  pages={28-39},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6582369}
}
The idea of collecting good ideas that looked less than brilliant in retrospect was suggested, given that thorough self-critique is the hallmark of any subject claiming to be a science, computing science cannot help but benefit from a retrospective analysis and evaluation.
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