[PRL] dijkstra anecdote
Richard C. Cobbe
cobbe at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Dec 5 10:48:11 EST 2003
Lo, on Friday, December 5, Joe Marshall did write:
> "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.
Ah. In that case, I agree completely.
Richard
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