A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
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A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
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Re: A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
#2Interesting, thanks!
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Re: A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
#3Lovely. My favorite is by Klaus Wirth. One passage:
> Occasionally he used a long “reading pipe”, until once, deep in thought, he bumped it into a door and hurt himself in the throat. Then he switched to cigarettes.
Re: A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
#4Very interesting document, and many new photos! Love how Knuth explains how he had to be cautious around Dijkstra. He was truly the Chuck Norris of computing (badass, beard, and from Texas).
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#5Who computer scientists of today could, in your opinion, be considered Dijkstra's spiritual successors?
Re: A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
#6Great article! I always have Edsger Dijkstra on a pedestal. The reason is his uncompromising attitude and biting wit in getting his beliefs across. I believe it is the only way to advance "Scientific Temperament".
As Sherlock Holmes observes; Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction!; we the "great unobservant programming public" when it comes to mathematical underpinnings of Computer Programming need to be taught and frequently reminded of the importance of "logical analysis and proof deduction". :-)
Re: A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
#7Very interesting document, and many new photos! Love how Knuth explains how he had to be cautious around Dijkstra. He was truly the Chuck Norris of computing (badass, beard, and from Texas).
From Texas?
He's from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He worked and lived most of his life in The Netherlands and lived and worked about 15 years in Texas, according to Wikipedia.
Re: A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
#8Very interesting document, and many new photos! Love how Knuth explains how he had to be cautious around Dijkstra. He was truly the Chuck Norris of computing (badass, beard, and from Texas).
From Texas? He's from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He worked and lived most of his life in The Netherlands and lived and worked about 15 years in Texas, according to Wikipedia.
Sure! but if you read the texts you'll see that he sort of "adopted" a Texan persona when living there.
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#9Who computer scientists of today could, in your opinion, be considered Dijkstra's spiritual successors?
D.J. Bernstein maybe?
Re: A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]
#10Who computer scientists of today could, in your opinion, be considered Dijkstra's spiritual successors?
There is mathmeth.com, also Ralph-Johan Back, also to some extent me (search for "foundations for mathematical methodology").