Dijkstra was replying to this: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf AFAIR Backus sa

Dijkstra was replying to this: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf AFAIR Backus says that C and Pascal are too low-level to be good at problem solving, but pure functional programs, point-free style and a more math-like notation may make programming less error-prone.