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"Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> writes:

> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote on 07 Feb 2019 in 
> comp.lang.javascript:
>
>> Edsge Dijkstra
>
> Not "Edsge" but "Edsger".
>
> Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 
> [Rotterdam, 11 May 1930 – Nuenen, 6 August 2002]
>
> He was primarily concerned, as I understand it,
> that by programming with the "GoTo" command,
> as was the norm in BASIC at that time, 

EWD's critique of go to makes no mention of BASIC, probably because it
was new and very much a niche language.  At the time (1968) COBOL,
FORTRAN, Algol, PL/I and so on where more significant players.

He made a considerable number of significant contributions in areas as
diverse as compilers (he invented the shunting yard algorithm),
concurrency (he invented semaphores), and networks (Dijkstra's
algorithm), but I think it would be fair to say that his was concerned
above all else with program correctness.  He considered programs to be
mathematical texts about which one could (and should) reason.  His book,
The Discipline of Programming, should be required reading for all
aspiring programmers.  It changed the way I programmed forever.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.