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=) Sorry, I was being sloppy there - couldn't come up with an accurate and un-platitudinous way to characterize Dijkstra's attitude. There are other places in h
by contextfree 16y ago
=) Sorry, I was being sloppy there - couldn't come up with an accurate and un-platitudinous way to characterize Dijkstra's attitude. There are other places in his writings where he's suspicious of an overemphasis on types, I think his criticisms of Ada mention it for example.
Dijkstra was a big proponent of rigorous mathematical means of establishing program correctness in general, of course, but he didn't necessary equate that with types.