E.W.Dijkstra Archive: By way of introduction (EWD 1041)

@shipp you’d have to ask #TheDam but I guess they just have fun doing it, besides, people do pay for stuffs a lot more crazy I’m sure you know 🙃

Is the minimal/flawed C code the best actionable way to tackle their stated problem: “almost every widely-distributed piece of software is a complexity behemoth”? Likely not, but that’s a crucial problem nonetheless. I would rather see them embracing #VLSAL (Very Large Scale Application of Logic) as #EdsgerDijkstra once summarized, but #ComputerScience is still young and not teached as much as it should be, though things are improving on that topic.

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