4 ms·
An Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra
- syaz1 16y agoThanks to my isolation, I would do things differently than people subjected to the standard pressures of conformity. I was a free man. Very inspiring words...
- trop 16y agoAccording to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL, a quote often attributed to Dijkstra, but actually written about Algol by C. A. R. Hoare in 1973: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors."
- henry_flower 16y agoA more funny, unabridged version of this interview: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=296 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=296
- profgarrett 16y agoHe's obviously made significant contributions, but I find his distain for industry off-putting. I wish we could separate computer science into theoretical v. applied research to clear up differences in the way the topic is approached.