Website review: Edsger Dijkstra - How do we tell tr...
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•7 reviews since Feb 17, 2006
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- DickBeldin rated 21 months ago
- From the page:
"Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us."
Dijkstra had us pegged, too chicken to be honest, too scientific to fool ourselves.
A Discipline of Programming should be required reading for anyone who wants to be or pretends to be a programmer. - From the page:
davewill rated 26 months ago- Not that great.
- chaton rated 26 months ago
- Dijkstra doesn't only ask the question ! He gives the responce and also the "truths that might hurt". Sometime Dijkstra is a bit rude ;-) in french : Dijkstra ne pose pas seulement la question ! Il donne la réponse et aussi les "vérités qui blessent". Parfois Dijkstra est un peu rude ;-)
- Pul-Ess rated 26 months ago
- You aren't hurting nearly enough yet.
- Marcus-Lycus rated 26 months ago
- "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
Absolutely. - "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
- Cagdas rated 26 months ago
- Some Edsger Dijskstra quotes : "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence." (I agree... i have to code COBOL for a while, and i already feel more stupid) "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." (yep...)
