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For all of E.W. Dijkstra's brilliance, he had a real problem with misrepresenting opinion as fact.
by norir 2y ago
For all of E.W. Dijkstra's brilliance, he had a real problem with misrepresenting opinion as fact.
- OldGuyInTheClub 2y agoI am not a computer scientist but I acknowledge Dijkstra is an honored name in that field. Yet for his shots against academia and industry, he signed it 'prof. dr.' and 'Burroughs Fellow.'
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoTo put it charitably, Dijkstra was unusually sure that his opinions were objectively correct.
- jazzypants 2y ago"I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras." -Alan Kay