5 Apr
2020
5 Apr
'20
3:17 p.m.
On 05/04/2020 22:27, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote:
I'm convinced that Dijksta (and anyone else who
came out with similar
comments were full of horseshit. In my opinion, it's the ability to
translate a real world "thing" into an algorithm that is the essense of
programming,
Dijkstra was a computer scientist not a computer programmer. The two are
only tangentially related!
I only ever managed to get to one of his guest lectures, which I found
to be very entertaining. I'm glad I was never one of his students :-)
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini
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