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
waiting for hand_moderation
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