Re:Jean Sammet, co-creator of COBOL, has died
by sethrin on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:20AM
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It's worth noting that Dijkstra was a computer scientist, not a programmer. From Wikipedia:
> Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades. Even after he succumbed to his UT colleagues' encouragement and acquired a Macintosh computer, he used it only for e-mail and for browsing the World Wide Web.
I think Dijkstra was writing from a very specific perspective, and that is mostly only relevant today from a historical viewpoint.
> Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades. Even after he succumbed to his UT colleagues' encouragement and acquired a Macintosh computer, he used it only for e-mail and for browsing the World Wide Web.
I think Dijkstra was writing from a very specific perspective, and that is mostly only relevant today from a historical viewpoint.