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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by dryrunes on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:26PM (#24944645)
What is an EWD?
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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by ninly on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:35PM (#24944763)
He typed (edit: and handwrote) hundreds of these open letters, technical notes, reports, etc. Here's the archive at UT:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by FireBy2024 on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:33PM (#24944732)
> IN 1959, DIJKSTRA began writing a series of private reports. Consecutively numbered and with his initials as a prefix, they became known as EWDs.
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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by Jtsummers on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:29PM (#24945958)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/welcome.html

That's the archive, talked about in the linked article. Letters (mostly) that he wrote and sent out to people. Today we'd consider their content and length equivalent to a technical blog. Some were much longer, though.

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