[Noisebridge-discuss] Dijkstra's "There is still a war going on"

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Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com> writes:

> 2009/10/27 Christoph Maier <cm.hardware.software.elsewhere at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 16:34 -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:
>> > I am a great fan of Dijkstra's writing. Something that
>> > recently showed up on Reddit:
>> >
>> >   http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EWD1165.html
>> >
>> > He makes such a strong case for the role of the technician,
>> > the scientist, as the creator of value that ultimately makes
>> > our modern world possible. Surely this is correct; but is he
>> > missing something? The dominance of the business/marketing
>> > side is undeniable; if technicians were really so powerful,
>> > would we not have managed to overcome our thralldom by now?
>>
>> Quoting Dijkstra, are you?
>>
>> GOTO hell.
>
>   I am trying to see this as a constructive or funny but I'm
>   having a hard time.

http://www.uqac.ca/~flemieux/PRO102/Dijkstra_Goto.pdf

when the cacm didn't suck

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