Ah, #Dijkstra, once again reminding us that computers are just too dumb to understand our witty banter. Apparently, expecting machines to "think" was just another pipe dream for those who find #programming syntax tedious and reality even more so. #Logic and precision? Who needs 'em when you can just argue with a compiler about semantics?
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html #Humor #AI #HackerNews #ngated

Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

Oh, #Dijkstra, bless his mathematically-obsessed heart, wants us to start #counting at #zero, as if we don’t have enough problems remembering birthdays! Instead of actually simplifying, he gives us four "conventions" that are as clear as a mud puddle.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html #Humor #Math #Conventions #HackerNews #ngated

Numbering should start at zero: E.W. Dijkstra

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

Edsger #Dijkstra
The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

https://inference-review.com/article/the-man-who-carried-computer-science-on-his-shoulders

Today I had an all-day seminar about "Code Critic" at MeWi Uni Bonn. I organized the talks of the students as a symposium. The last talk was about the #GOTO controversy that started in the end of the 1960s with a rant from Edsger W. #Dijkstra and lasts until today. The student's talk ended with a self-made meme.

I keep running into a quote, supposedly by Edsger Dijkstra, "Object-oriented programming an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California". Now, I enjoy this witty little aphorism, but for the life of me I can't find any source for it - it literally only seems to exist as a quote people use and attribute to him. Anyone got a clue?

Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph
— Quanta Magazine

｢ Dijkstra credited his algorithm’s enduring appeal in part to its unusual origin story. “Without pencil and paper you are almost forced to avoid all avoidable complexities,” he said ｣

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-establish-the-best-way-to-traverse-a-graph-20241025/

Somebody really loves their synchronisation primitives. #Dijkstra

Dijkstra's algorithm, one of the most brilliant and elegant algorithm ever.

(Dijkstra was born on this day, in 1930)

Stand van zaken volgens bureau #Dijkstra & #vanZwol #formatie voor @DeGroene