From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
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: <m3u3171pcj.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 701otq$5st$1@ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk
"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.
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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 [this message]
1998-10-14 0:00 ` R. Kerr
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1998-10-28 0:00 John Woodruff
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-08-19 0:00 Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful) adam
1998-08-19 0:00 ` Dan Higdon
1998-08-20 0:00 ` adam
1998-08-20 0:00 ` Software landmines (loops) Nick Leaton
1998-08-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-30 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Andrew Hussey
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Gerry Quinn
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-09-02 0:00 ` mfinney
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Ell
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Ell
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Ell
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-09-03 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-09-06 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-09-08 0:00 ` adam
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1998-09-16 0:00 ` Biju Thomas
1998-09-16 0:00 ` Is there a language that Dijkstra liked? (was: Re: Software landmines (loops)) Rick Smith
1998-09-17 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-09-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-17 0:00 ` Biju Thomas
1998-09-18 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-18 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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1998-10-23 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Brian Mueller
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Ell
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1998-10-23 0:00 ` DPH
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1998-10-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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1998-10-24 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Bill Ghrist
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1998-10-09 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
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1998-10-12 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
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1998-09-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-09-18 0:00 ` bengt
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1998-10-21 0:00 ` Van Snyder
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1998-10-26 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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1998-10-26 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1998-10-28 0:00 ` norm
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