There were (and are) plenty of ways to make some simple scripts that you could term 'programming'. This isn't what Dijkstra is talking about - he's talking abo

There were (and are) plenty of ways to make some simple scripts that you could term 'programming'. This isn't what Dijkstra is talking about - he's talking about formally correct programming which has gone out of style in favor of unit tests and 'move fast and break things'. Completely different perspective on programming - a scientific approach versus an engineering approach to problem solving. Dijkstra would be very upset by your hacking together Python scripts as programming and he would probably have sent a similar letter to the one in the OP. ;)