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EWD comes up as a dissenter for Algol-68, and the longer my career as a software developer the more I disagree with him on anything that isn't pure math.
by aidenn0 2y ago
EWD comes up as a dissenter for Algol-68, and the longer my career as a software developer the more I disagree with him on anything that isn't pure math.
- mhd 2y agoHaving EWD as a dissenter also seems a rather low bar, to be fair. (One might say he was a bit of a Edsgerlord.)
- le-mark 2y agoEWD is apparently Edsger W. Dijkstra for those also unaccustomed to reading him cited by his initials.
- User23 2y agoThe appellation is in some part due to his custom of writing monographs for himself titled EWD-n[1]. They are a fascinating mix of deep mathematical and philosophical insight and curmudgeonly reflective essaying. [1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/
- 082349872349872 2y ago> writing monographs for himself One might almost call it a "blog" if it weren't for the fact that EWD started ~35 years before Frontier NewsPage.
- sevensor 2y agoYeah, if EWD had had his way, very little software would ever have been written. I think his insistence on proving the correctness of imperative programs is understandable but entirely wrong headed. The sheer amount of insight needed to get through the working day would be unattainable by most and unsustainable for all but a few.