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The difference being that, once you set aside Dijkstra's glib aphorisms, there may not BE a 1940 to talk about.
by microtherion 16y ago
The difference being that, once you set aside Dijkstra's glib aphorisms, there may not BE a 1940 to talk about.
- philwelch 16y agoYou're talking about the inventor of the shortest-path algorithm and the semaphore.
- microtherion 16y agoObviously, mutual exclusion is widely used. I'm not so sure that semaphores as such are used as widely (and certainly not with functions named P() and V()).
- xiongchiamiov 16y agoDijkstra's algorithm? Postfix notation? A slew of other algorithmic things I don't even understand?