Edsger Dijkstra's Profile
Brief about Edsger Dijkstra: By info that we know Edsger Dijkstra was born at 1930-05-11. And also Edsger Dijkstra is Dutch Scientist.
Some Edsger Dijkstra's quotes. Goto "Edsger Dijkstra's quotation" section for more.The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Tags: Consider, Essential, StepIt is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Tags: Good, Hope, ImpossibleComputer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Tags: Computer, Computers, ScienceSimplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Tags: SimplicityIf 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
Tags: Enough, Looking, YourselfThe competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Tags: Clever, Full, HumilityElegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Tags: Between, Failure, SuccessProgram testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
Tags: Absence, Show, UsedObject-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Tags: Bad, California, IdeaProgramming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
Tags: Difficult, Pure, RemainThe question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Tags: Computers, Question, WhetherThe use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
Tags: Criminal, Mind, TeachingAPL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Tags: Future, Language, PastMany mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
Tags: Feeling, Proud, ThinkingThe students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Tags: Learn, Life, TrainingWhy has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Tags: Education, Good, WorkAbout the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Tags: Impossible, Language, TryDon't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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