From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,14f7200925acb579 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Michael P. Walsh" Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever! Date: 2000/03/22 Message-ID: <38D92358.FC44D23E@pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 600984617 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38D7B41D.B3494C6A@lmco.com> <8b8m2e$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> <8b9fk3$l18$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38D8DFC2.778826FB@cadence.com> <8barci$4ks$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8bb0j3$auc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-la.pbi.net 953754575 206.170.218.97 (Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:49:35 PST) Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:49:35 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > In article , > Brian Rogoff wrote: > > Dijkstra also wrote that CS students should be kept away from a > > computer for their first year and focus on pencil and paper proofs (no > > problem for me, I was a Math major) and he probably didn't like Ada > > anyways so phooey on him :-) > > I don't ever really expect to agree with Dijkstra. But that's because > Basic was my first language, therefore I am "mentally mutilated beyond > all hope of saving", or somesuch. > > For the record, I think my wife would agreee with him on that point. :-) > > -- > T.E.D. > http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html > In addition to being a noted computer expert Dijkstra is noted for his ascerbic remarks and ability to make thought provoking comments. Anyone taking some of Dijkstra's words completely literally is quite likely rising to his bait. In some ways you could call Dijkstra a "trolling" academic. Note that I am in no way disparaging Dijkstra's truly great capabilities as a computer scientist. Mike Walsh