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lp4v4ntoday at 4:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Dijkstra passed away in 2002, sometimes I wonder what he would write nowadays given that the world took the opposite direction of everything he deemed as correct in software development.


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JCattheATMtoday at 5:15 PM

I honestly never got why in college his opinions were just taken as mandates. I never bough into the "goto considered harmful" argument, for example.

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