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? That was Edsger Dijkstra's article, if I recall correctly. The standard joke is "Europeans refer to him by reference, as Nicklaus Wirth, and Americans - by v
by Blammar 4y ago
? That was Edsger Dijkstra's article, if I recall correctly.
The standard joke is "Europeans refer to him by reference, as Nicklaus Wirth, and Americans - by value, as Nickel's Worth."
- sedatk 4y agoYes my bad. Edited, thanks!
- pdw 4y agoIt was Dijkstra's article, but he submitted it with the title "A case against the Go To statement". Wirth was the journal editor and he choose to rename it to "Go To statement considered harmful". Knuth ties into this because he published a response "Structured Programming with go to Statements", examining many situations where goto statements are hard to avoid in the standard structured programming paradigm.
- Jtsummers 4y agoGGP had originally referred to the author of the article as Knuth, GP (and I) both replied correcting that. GGP comment has since been edited.
- sedatk 4y agoYes, I'd meant Dijkstra where I said Knuth despite that Knuth might still be relevant. I got this right in the book, no worries. :)