[TUHS] Happy birthday, Edsger Dijkstra!
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri May 11 05:34:44 AEST 2018
Born on this day in 1930, he gave us ALGOL, the basis of all decent
programming languages today, and the entire concept of structured
programming. Ah, well I remember the ALGOLW compiler on the 360...
There's a beaut article here:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF
And remember, testing can show the presence of errors, but not their
absence...
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Dave Horsfall BSc DTM (VK2KFU) -- FuglySoft -- Gosford IT -- Unix/C/Perl (AbW)
People who fail to / understand security / surely will suffer. (tks: RichardM)
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