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What did Dijkstra do 50 years ago?

McKeag's account of T.H.E.

Submitted by kdegrave on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 19:06

Dijkstra's Rallying Cry for Generalization is pleased to offer to its readers Chapter III of the book Studies in Operating Systems by R. M. McKeag and R. Wilson, edited by D H. R. Huxtable and published in 1976 by Academic Press:

T.H.E. Multiprogramming System (18.6 MiB PDF)
by R. M. McKeag

For personal use only. Republished here with the kind permission of McKeag and Fujitsu Services Ltd.

Dijkstra and Van Wijngaarden

Submitted by egdaylight on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 17:54

Here's a comment from another reviewer for my paper on `Dijkstra's Rallying Cry...':

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Dijkstra the Linguist?

Submitted by egdaylight on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 16:37

Is it correct to say that Dijkstra reasoned linguistically during the late 1950s and early 1960s? A reviewer of the research paper `Dijkstra's Rallying Cry ...' expressed his reservations about this matter.

In the reviewer's own words:

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Computer efficiency

Submitted by egdaylight on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:45

Here is what a reviewer had to say about the research paper `Dijkstra’s Rallying Cry ...':

The paper is, in essence, about an argument of generality versus computer efficiency. The argument was eventually settled in favour of the former due to the enormous advances in electronic technology. Today, computer efficiency is not an issue any more.

Is this correct? The last sentence seems to contradict Martin Reiser’s “law” which states that

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