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]
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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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1999-10-25 0:00 Wilhelm Spickermann [this message]
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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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