Edsger DijkstraA collection of 6 posts

Learning

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Good

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had...

Failure

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success a...

Education

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance ...

Computers

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Computers

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the que...