From: "R. Kerr" <R.Kerr@ncl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? (was: Re: Software landmines (loops))
Date: 1998/10/14
Date: 1998-10-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <702q82$ihh$1@ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3u3171pcj.fsf@mheaney.ni.net
Matthew Heaney (matthew_heaney@acm.org) wrote:
> "R. Kerr" <R.Kerr@ncl.ac.uk> writes:
> > I suppose Dijkstra, as one of the holy triumvirate who wrote the
> > seminal "Structured Programming" in 1972, did not find too abhorrent
> > the language used by co-author Ole-Johan Dahl in his chapter
> > "Hierarchical Program Structures". That language was SIMULA, the most
> > influential ancestor of all OO languages.
> This statement is a bit misleading.
> Although the book "Structured Programming" credited to O.J. Dahl,
> E.W. Dijkstra, and C.A.R. Hoare, Dijkstra only wrote the first chapter,
> called "Notes on Structured Programming."
>
> The third chapter, "Hierarchical Program Structures," was co-authored by
> Dahl and Hoare. Dijkstra was NOT a co-author of that chapter.
A trifle pedantic methinks. I meant that Dijkstra was co-author of
the book and, according to the English parsing rules I was taught, in
"Ole-Johan Dahl in his chapter", "his" should be bound to Dahl, not
Dijkstra. I did not, therefore, suggest that Dijkstra was co-author
of chapter 3.
Cheers....Ron
(another pedant when provoked :-))
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1998-10-14 0:00 Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? (was: Re: Software landmines (loops)) R. Kerr
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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