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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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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 scientifically
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Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.
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I know of no biographical information whatever on Dijkstra, but
he deserves mention for at least three reasons:
Dijkstra is one of the grand old men of the post-WW II generation
that built modern computing, contributing for example to the first
implementation of Algol-60, ancestor to most of
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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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Burroughs Corporation Records
Edsger W. Dijkstra Papers, 1971-1979
Collection Size: 1 cubic ft. (1 box)
Creator: Dijkstra, Edsger W.
Prepared By: Susan A. Stepka, August 1995
Acquisition: The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute
by Unisys Corporation in 1991, accession 991-35.
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Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 11, 1930 ( 1930-05-11 )
August 6, 2002 (aged 72)
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002; Dutch pronunciation:
for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of
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Obituary by Andrew Orlowski, The Register.
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, 8th August 2002 15:09 GMT
Dutch computer pioneer Edsger W Dijkstra has died, aged 72.
Over forty years, Dijkstra enriched software with many concepts, often expressed with such wit and clarity they make your teeth hum.
He most famously proselytised structured programming, but his work battled
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