Too often i see people being dismissive of Dijkstra because of his aphorisms, they don't understand the context that drove it.
In my mind he was a "True Perfectionist" who demanded Perfection of himself and everybody else. It was a rare uncompromising and mathematically focused mind well suited to the then nascent "Computing Science" field.
Too often i see people being dismissive of Dijkstra because of his aphorisms, they don't understand the context that drove it.
In my mind he was a "True Perfectionist" who demanded Perfection of himself and everybody else. It was a rare uncompromising and mathematically focused mind well suited to the then nascent "Computing Science" field.