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Nice try, Alan Kay! <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ROTJKkhuI> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ROTJKkhuI> (For those who don't feel like watching: "Arrog
by jemfinch 16y ago
Nice try, Alan Kay! <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ROTJKkhuI> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ROTJKkhuI>
(For those who don't feel like watching: "Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.")
As a Dijkstra fan myself, though, I feel duty-bound to emphasize that condemning a claim as having been stated by an arrogant man is just a somewhat more subtle way of stating an ad hominem fallacy.
- euccastro 16y agoI don't think he's using the nano-Dijkstras comment as an argument, but as a side joke. He refutes Dijkstras on empirical grounds: the US way of programming got the job done, as illustrated by the fact that most of the software in the world was being produced there.
- jemfinch 16y agoI think Kay's US-vs-EUR comparison is largely inappropriate regardless because Dijkstra had long been writing his missives from Texas.