A Parable by Dijkstra (1973)

Re:A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) by pr_millipede on Sunday July 15, 2018 @11:51PM (#17538629)

I don't quite understand why 'true mathematicians' fail to get the point. Any ideas?

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Re:A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) by Sniffnoy on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:14AM (#17538731)

Because you get to the solution and you say, "But that's just the same thing..."

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Re:A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) by djsumdog on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:16AM (#17538738)

It's like the joke with boiling the pot of water and just dumping out the water; reducing it to the previous problem with a known solution ... or something like that...

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Re:A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) by f2f on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:01AM (#17538680)

true mathematicians don't do practicality. https://xkcd.com/435/

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