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 -- Antonio Carlini anto...@acarlini.com
