I am glad you found it useful; your appreciation is much appreciated :-) The point of my post was that studying Dijkstra is essential even if we cannot follow

I am glad you found it useful; your appreciation is much appreciated :-) The point of my post was that studying Dijkstra is essential even if we cannot follow his methods to the letter. The key is to improve our own thinking and adopt better and more productive work-habits. You might also want to checkout Dijkstra's A Method of Programming and Wirth's Systematic Programming: An Introduction.