At 7:20 PM +0000 8/8/02, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: >May he RIP. Oops no. May his soul find the open shortest path first to the >heaven for computer scientist geniuses. > >Priscilla
I think he would agree with the academic fine point that the Dijkstra algorithm is only the first (intra-area) part of the OSPF route computation. > >Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: >> >> At 4:10 AM +0000 8/8/02, Jenny McLeod wrote: >> >I received a rumour that Edsger Dijkstra, known for his >> dislike of Goto >> >statements as much as for the shortest path first algorithm, >> has died. I >> >haven't been able to confirm this, though. >> >True? False? >> > >> >JMcL >> > >> >> An interesting epitaph: "GOTO Considered Harmful", >> Communications of >> the ACM, 1968. >> >> Spawned hundreds of papers, of quality good and bad, all titled >> "XXX >> considered harmful." See, for example, RFCs 1627 and 1263. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=50979&t=50896 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

