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From: Patrick Logan <plogan@user2.teleport.com>
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/07
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In comp.object Ray Gardner <rgardner@nyx.net> wrote:

: "EWD494: Trip Report E.W. Dijkstra 16th April/7th May, 1975, 
: U.S.A. and Canada", reprinted in _Selected Writings on Computing: 
: A Personal Perspective_, E.W. Dijkstra, Springer-Verlag, 1982 (a 
: _really_ neat sample of Dijkstra's EWD papers, which I think were 
: mostly circulated only to colleagues by a sort of samizdat):

I love this book. I've had it for almost 15 years. I pick it up
several tiems a year and read his trip reports, etc. What a
personality!

Dijkstra gave a talk at Data General in Boston in the mid 1980's. What
a character! At that time, he claimed to not be using a computer or to
want one. We gave him one of the first PC compatible lap tops ever
made. He looked at it, and said he'd consider using it.

-- 
Patrick Logan    (H) mailto:plogan@teleport.com 
                 (W) mailto:patrickl@gemstone.com 
                 http://www.gemstone.com