How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html Short, tongue-in-cheek essay by Edsger Dijkstra on old problems in programming, many of which are embarrassingly still with us: criticizes APL, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, natural language programming. University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science CS655: Programming Languages, Spring 2001 How do we tell truths that might hurt? Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975 Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientificallywaiting for hand_moderation Dijkstra, Edsger Edsger Dijkstra How do we tell truths that might hurt
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Short, tongue-in-cheek essay by Edsger Dijkstra on old problems in programming, many of which are embarrassingly still with us: criticizes APL, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, natural language programming.
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Burroughs Corporation Records: large, impressive list of articles and reports Dijkstra wrote about all aspects of programming; most written while a research fellow for Burroughs, Netherlands.
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Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra, a collection of over 1,300 written works, famously known as EWDs. Also, In Pursuit of Simplicity symposium. Format: PDF.
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