On 4/5/20 2:27 PM, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote: > I'm convinced that Dijksta (and anyone else who came out with similar > comments were full of horseshit. In my opinion, it's the ability to > translate a real world "thing" into an algorithm that is the essense of > programming, and anyone who has managed to learn (particularly on their > own, as many of us did) that ability has learned something that transcends > the language (or tool) you use to implement the algorithm. When I first > started programming professionally, we had "programmers" (or sometimes > designers) who specified the algorithms and "coders" who implemented them. > That never worked well
Well, IIRC< Dijkstra hated the IBM 1620 too, but lots of work was done with it. So, there are opinions and then there is reality. In that respect, nothing's changed. --Chuck