5 Apr
2020
5 Apr
'20
4:33 p.m.
On April 5, 2020 at 5:28 PM Peter Schow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 4:18 PM Antonio Carlini via cctalk<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:> Dijkstra was a computer scientist not a computer programmer. The two areonly
tangentially related!It's funny that you say this because Dijkstra explictly calls
himselfa programmer in his 1972 ACM Turing Award Lecture:
"I married, and Dutch marriage rites require you to state yourprofessionand I stated
that i was a programmer."
He called himself a programmer in 1957, and even that description wasn't allowed. I
don't think the term "computer scientist" existed yet.
Another two years later, in 1957, I married and Dutch marriage rites require you to state
your profession and I stated that I was a programmer. But the municipal authorities of the
town of Amsterdam did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession. And,
believe it or not, but under the heading ?profession? my marriage act shows the ridiculous
entry ?theoretical physicist?!
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html
Will