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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
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"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.