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A comment on E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer.

Re:E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer by samfisher83 on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:57AM (#11932674)
Here is the last line in his essay:

intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.

The ironic thing was he was not very humble. He was pretty mean to a lot of people. He had a pretty massive ego.

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Re:E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer by Joeri on Sunday June 19, 2016 @09:24AM (#11932891)
He was not humble towards people, he was humble towards programming. Recognizing that you can never be more than an apprentice at programming is essential to becoming good at it.
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