Dijkstra's Manuscripts Available Online

Bodrius writes "Salon has a short but interesting article called GOTO considered joyful, about E. W. Dijkstra's manuscripts, as published by the University of Texas, and their bloggish nature. I'm not sure if the blog analogy is that accurate, but the articles are a must read for computer scientists and geeks in general." (Annoying but free click-through system for non-subscribers.)

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Is Dykstra still relevant today?

[Jack Wagner]

Lets face it, all one has to do is take a quick look at the demand for certain skill sets on the net to get a pretty good feel for what's relevant today and I'm not sure c++ is anywhere on that radar screen. Most of my work as of late has been all Java and c#, with some legacy C programming done (on low level systems only of course, nobody would pay someone by the hour to have app level work done in C these days)

Sometimes I wonder when I hear people complain about how the CS industry tends to shun the old timers when the truth is that a lot of these old timers are trying to hang on to legacy technology like C++ or perl when the industry has moved onto bigger and better things.

If I've learned one thing it's that in IS/IT/CS you either adapt and move on or you end up doing tech support on the midnight shift. Plain and simple. I think Fred Brooks touched on this in his book "The Mythical Man Month" when he said that computer programming will never be a mature field because to excel in it you must always be changing your language focus.

Warmest regards,
--Jack

Never heard of him

[stud9920]

is he apparented to Craig Dijkstra of Don't Copy That Floppy fame ?

Re:Never heard of him

[Anonymous Coward]

I like your troll generators, man. I've noticed 2 bugs however:

1. The "found dead" generator doesn't use the correct indefinite article with the nationality. It will always use "an".
2. Strings containing escape characters like ' will come out escaped with backslashes.

Re:Why is LINUX Open Source Slashdot community RAC

[Anonymous Coward]

Miguel de Icaza is a fucking NIGGER HISPANIC ASIAN!

Re:Full Text (Subscribers Only Article)

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

(1) He obviously can't tell the difference between pure and applied mathematics and
(2) How come all the loser mathematicians who can't hack it end up becoming programmers?.

I've never had much respect for Dijkstra. I have even less now.

Re:LINUX Open Source Slashdot are RACISTS

[Anonymous Coward]

Nigga, please. What about Rob Malda? Spics are allowed in our community.

Re:Timothy Considered Gay

[Anonymous Coward]

by doing "it"(and/or sex) with your mom?

Re:Full Text (Subscribers Only Article)

[Anonymous Coward]

(2) How come all the loser mathematicians who can't hack it end up becoming programmers?.(2) How come all the loser mathematicians who can't hack it end up becoming programmers?.

Because programming is a brain-dead job. You're just writing instructions for a computer to do the real work. Mathematics has nothing to do with programming or else we wouldn't have so many perl/php script kiddies these days. Case in point, slashdot. I hardly think Rob is a mathematician.

Fact : Rob Malda's sex life is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Rob Malda's sex life is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Rob Malda's sex life community when IDC confirmed that Rob Malda's sex life market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Rob Malda's sex life has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Rob Malda's sex life is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Rob Malda's sex life's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Rob Malda's sex life faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Rob Malda's sex life because Rob Malda's sex life is dying. Things are looking very bad for Rob Malda's sex life. As many of us are already aware, Rob Malda's sex life continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Rob's penis is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Rob's penis developers your mom and your dad only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Rob's penis is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Rob's ass leader the goatse man states that there are 7000 users of Rob's ass. How many users of CowboyNeal's penis are there? Let's see. The number of Rob's ass versus CowboyNeal's penis posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 CowboyNeal's penis users. Timothy's ass posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of CowboyNeal's penis posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Timothy's ass. A recent article put Rob's penis at about 80 percent of the Rob Malda's sex life market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Rob's penis users. This is consistent with the number of Rob's penis Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of the Slashdot office, abysmal sales and so on, Rob's penis went out of business and was taken over by Michael who sell another troubled OS. Now Michael is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that Rob Malda's sex life has steadily declined in market share. Rob Malda's sex life is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Rob Malda's sex life is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Rob Malda's sex life continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Rob Malda's sex life is dead.

Fact: Rob Malda's sex life is dying

Re: Subscription not necessary

[Black Parrot]

> In most civilized countries of which I know, fraud (i.e., falsifying information to get access to goods and/or services to which one is not normally entitled) is illegal.

But falsifying information to justify the invasion of another country is OK.