Go to statement considered harmful university of arizona. I dont know how many of you have ever met dijkstra, but. Programming languages spring 2000 a parable edsger w. Edsger wybe dijkstra was born in rotterdam on 11 may 1930. Pdf i was most honoured, but also somewhat confused, by the invitation to give a. He received the 1972 turing award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the schlumberger centennial chair of computer sciences at the university of texas at austin from 1984 until 2000. Also, the paper cooperating sequential processes was finalised in 1965 and was available as. Turing award, widely considered the most prestigious award in computer science. Its use in this context originated in 1968 with edsger dijkstra s letter go to statement considered harmful.
Edsger dijkstra was a principal contributor in the late 1950s to the development of the algol. Its use in this context originated in 1968 with edsger dijkstras letter go to. The letter to the editor that ignited the infamous go to controversy. Solution to the singlesource shortest path problem in graph theory. University of virginia, department of computer science cs655. As s sorin istrail 2008 notes, a prolific writer, he dijkstra authored more than 1,300 papers. Considered harmful is a part of a phrasal template x considered harmful. V roce 1942 nastoupil dijsktra jako dvanactilety chlapec na gymnasium erasminium. Cacm editor niklaus wirth changed the title to go to statement considered. Edsger wybe dijkstra, professor emeritus in the computer sciences department. Edsger wybe dijkstra was one of the most influential members of. Dijkstra has 14 books on goodreads with 2892 ratings.
They would first decide upon the interface between the hardware and the software, by writing a programming manual. Criticizing professor dijkstra considered harmless pdf. As of 2009 its snowclones have been used in the titles of at least 65 critical essays in computer science and related disciplines. A prolific writer especially as an essayist, dijkstra authored more than 1,300 papers, many written by hand in his precise script. Print mobile app acm digital library full text pdf in the digital edition share. I often conceptualize programming as a twodimensional continuum, with alan kay on one dimension flexibility, interactivity, composability, exploration and edsger dijkstra on the other correctness, efficiency, simplicity.
Jeho otec pracoval jako chemik a matka byla matematicka. But the privilege of talking to you about edsger dijkstra is not an occasion for humour or at least. I used the invitation to speak at the meeting as an opportunity to tell ria dijkstra edsger s widow and a lot of people who knew dijkstra well, or at least knew lots about dijkstra, what a debt. He could write about formal issues in the form of an essay. Send by email share on reddit share on stumbleupon share on hacker news share on tweeter share on facebook. Dijkstra prize in distributed computing honors dijkstra s foundational work on concurrency primitives such as the semaphore, concurrency problems such as mutual exclusion and deadlock, reasoning about concurrent systems, and selfstabilization, which comprises one of the most important supports upon which the field of. Pdf the computer science luminary, in one of his last interviews.
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