"While he would have hated Perl"

I can understand why, quoting from LWN for August 8, 2002

"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly lmited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Perl is my clever programming trick :-)

Judging by some of the other quotes on the page (esp. the COBOL one) I think I would have liked him. Heres to you Edsger.

--
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. -Margaret Mitchell

In reply to Re: RIP: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra by greenFox
in thread RIP: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra by Abigail-II

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