3 ms·
What is an EWD?
by dryrunes 6y ago
What is an EWD?
- FireBy2024 6y ago> IN 1959, DIJKSTRA began writing a series of private reports. Consecutively numbered and with his initials as a prefix, they became known as EWDs.
- ninly 6y agoHe typed (edit: and handwrote) hundreds of these open letters, technical notes, reports, etc. Here's the archive at UT: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
- Jtsummers 6y agohttps://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/welcome.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/welcome.html That's the archive, talked about in the linked article. Letters (mostly) that he wrote and sent out to people. Today we'd consider their content and length equivalent to a technical blog. Some were much longer, though.