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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by lolinder on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:52PM (#35201273)
What you say about Dijkstra is true, but we're not actually talking about a Dijkstra quote here, we're talking about Harold Abelson.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Abelson

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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by dgacmu on Friday March 17, 2023 @03:26PM (#35201691)
I think we all started replying to a sibling comment that quoted from Dijkstra and we got it threaded wrong.

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes” - Edsger Dijkstra

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