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> If Dijkstra was still alive and well, and you put him, Guy Steele, and Don Knuth in a room and asked me to pick two of the three to spend the day with Or --
by cabalamat 17y ago
> If Dijkstra was still alive and well, and you put him, Guy Steele, and Don Knuth in a room and asked me to pick two of the three to spend the day with
Or -- and more relevant to their professional competence -- to develop a large, complex and safety-critical system, such as air traffic control; I wouldn't choose Dijkstra over Knuth or Steele for that job either.
- jpendry 17y agoyou realize you're saying you wouldn't choose the guy that _invented_ semaphores right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)
- jeffcoat 17y agoI think that's the point, yes. In software engineering, quantity has a quality all its own.