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Not advocating Alan Kay's view on Dijkstra here, but his answer to this is still very funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KivesLMncs https://www.youtube.com
by elcapitan 11y ago
Not advocating Alan Kay's view on Dijkstra here, but his answer to this is still very funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KivesLMncs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KivesLMncs
"You may know that arrogance in computer science is measured in Nano-Dijkstras. [..] I wrote a rebuttal paper just named 'On the fact that most software in the world is written on one side of the Atlantic'."
- david-given 11y agoI hear that in the mathematical world it's measures as milli-Mandelbrots. Why, some people even get as high as three, or occasionally four!