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From: Wilhelm Spickermann <wilhelm.spickermann@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Comments
Date: 1999/10/25
Date: 1999-10-25T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.991025081730.wilhelm.spickermann@t-online.de> (raw)

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On 24-Oct-99 Ehud Lamm wrote:
..
> groups Dijkstra suposedly said that you can tell if someone is a good
> programmer by judging their native language skills.
..

He wrote in EWD498 (1975):
"Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of
one�s native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer."

(Edsger W. Dijkstra: Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal
Perspective, Springer 1982)

Wilhelm





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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-25  0:00 Wilhelm Spickermann [this message]
     [not found] <7ttb4a$8mq$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
1999-10-12  0:00 ` Self-referential types Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-13  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-15  0:00       ` Robert I. Eachus
     [not found]         ` <slrn80fl9f.68j.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
1999-10-19  0:00           ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-21  0:00               ` Comments (was: Self-referential types) Wes Groleau
1999-10-21  0:00                 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-23  0:00                     ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23  0:00                       ` Comments Georg Bauhaus
1999-10-24  0:00                         ` Comments Ehud Lamm
1999-10-26  0:00                           ` Comments Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-28  0:00                             ` Comments Jerry van Dijk
1999-10-28  0:00                               ` Comments Ted Dennison
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1997-03-12  0:00 Comments Beamish
1996-11-07  0:00 Comments N.A.Smith
1996-11-11  0:00 ` Comments Hercules Gunter
1996-11-13  0:00   ` Comments ennals
1996-11-14  0:00     ` Comments Dirk Dickmanns
1996-11-14  0:00     ` Comments johnherro
1996-11-18  0:00     ` Comments Richard A. O'Keefe
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