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It is a tragedy really, his ideas always seem to get lost in senseless narcissism.
by maurits 11y ago
It is a tragedy really, his ideas always seem to get lost in senseless narcissism.
- copperx 11y agoDijkstra's ideas (not just his contributions to math) survived despite his arrogance. The difference is that Wolfram's ideas are not testable.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoDijkstra's ideas survive, but are (mostly) not used...
- maaku 11y agoI just coded an algorithm due to Dijkstra yesterday. His influence is very much alive...
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoThere's a whole lot of structured programming going on these days.
- jerf 11y agoIndeed! I've got a blog post on deck that likens it to a fish in water; we all use it so thoroughly nowadays we don't even notice it because an unstructured programming language is almost inconceivable to us.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoAh, yes, I had forgotten structured programming. Yes, it won and goto lost, and the world is better for it. What I was referring to, though, was what I think was Dijkstra's main idea: That programming should be done by a particular approach (the "postulational method") that allows/requires mathematical reasoning about code, and that code should be mathematically proven to be correct. That idea is used very little.