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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002

Posted by michael on from the goto-end dept.

Order writes "Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, one of the founding fathers of computer science and the author of the famous "Go To Considered Harmful", has died on Aug. 6, 2002 after a long struggle with cancer."

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  1. Young Science Indeed! by Louis+Savain · · Score: 2, Troll

    Its unfortunate that our field is so young that its pioneers are just now starting to pass on (compared to other sciences such as Physics, Chemistry, etc.).

    Yes. Computer science is indeed in its infancy. Dijkstra cleaned up algorithms by eliminating spaghetti code and introducing structured programming. In my opinion, we are still mired deep in the dark ages of computing. If only someone would clean up software engineering by eliminating the algorithm as the basis of software construction.

    Do a search on Google for 'synchronous reactive systems' and find out about the next big advance in software engineering.

    Project COSA