[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...

-- 
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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