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From: ell@access.digex.net (Ell)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/10/05
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"Robert C. Martin" <rmartin@oma.com> wrote:

>For your entertainment, below my signature I have included a post which
>appeared about a month ago.  It was initially sent by Ray Gardner.  It gives
>us some insight into how Dijkstra felt regarding Harland Mills and his
>additions to Structured Programming.
>
>[elided post]

I can see nothing in it that makes a reasoned and meaningful case
against Mills with regard to anything, including software engineering.

Perhaps it was due to how he was quoted, but on the whole the quote is
fuzzy, mildly incoherent and hard to get anything out of.  It seems he
had some problem with IBM, the 360, and universities and that Mills
was somehow involved in with them in ways he did not like.  But it is
really not clear.

Elliott
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