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Really? Is that you criteria for whether someone knows something worthwhile about programming? What did Stroustrup create? How about Dijsktra? Tannenbaun? Herb
by zarkov99 6y ago
Really? Is that you criteria for whether someone knows something worthwhile about programming? What did Stroustrup create? How about Dijsktra? Tannenbaun? Herb Sutter? There is more than one way to contribute to the advancement of the state of the art and Martin has done plenty to advance it.
- zabzonk 6y ago> What did Stroustrup create? Are you serious?
- zarkov99 6y agoMaybe C++ could be considered a product, but that did not seem to be what the OP meant.
- buescher 6y agoI'll take Knuth's ideas on goto over Dijsktra's any day, not just because Knuth has been the better thinker and writer, but also because he wrote TeX and other software. Remember when structured programming was going to fix everything? Well, neither do I, but it still had a ton of momentum as a panacea when I was learning to program. Grown-ups with access to real computers would sniff at our BASIC machines and quote Djikstra at us.