[PRL] dijkstra anecdote

[Joe Marshall]

"Richard C. Cobbe" <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> 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?

Sorry.  I was enumerating examples of Dijkstra's claim.