[PRL] dijkstra anecdote

[Richard C. Cobbe]

Lo, on Friday, December 5, Joe Marshall did write:

> David Herman <dherman at ccs.neu.edu> writes:
> 
> >> Firstly, simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require
> >> hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be
> >> appreciated.
> 
> Functional programming, Lisp, Scheme, Cambridge Polish notation
> (s-expressions), proper tail recursion, first-class continuations,
> bignums, automatic memory management, higher-order functions, ...
> 

<SNIP>

Forgive what may be an extraordinarily naïve question, but I don't know
how to interpret your message.  Are you questioning Dijkstra's claims,
or providing evidence to justify them?

Richard