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Re:Edsger W.Dijkstra - How do we tell truths that might hurt? by Deprecated on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @11:00AM (#2279965)
I see he favored ALGOL-60, so maybe Pascal, Modula, Ada ...
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Re:Edsger W.Dijkstra - How do we tell truths that might hurt? by microtherion on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @01:02PM (#2280463)
Pretty sure he was on record against Ada. From his point of view, I don't think Pascal and Modula(-2) had much to recommend them over Algol-60.
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