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thwartedyesterday at 5:27 PM1 replyview on HN

This is such a common position in just about every professional industry, codified legally or as personal belief, that it barely qualifies to be called out as unique to Dijkstra.


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kelipsoyesterday at 9:04 PM

Yes, who would say structured programming is bad these days, though maybe it wasn’t a popular sentiment at the time. Though I find this thread funny, “Dijktra was elitist, oh no, he did the gatekeeping, what horror, let’s abandon structured programming and seeing programming as a discipline altogether”.