Re: [tied] OT: Dijkstra (was Re: Dutch names in -ma)

> On the subject of -stra (and OT):
>
> A computer science colleague of mine told me this story:
>
> He was at a conference in which Edsger Dijkstra ("Goto considered
> harmful" etc) appeared. Dijkstra was very insistent in this matter
> and wasn't one to give up in the face of criticism (of course time
> has shown him right).
> One participant proposed (out of hearing range) that a new
> international measuring unit of self-confidence be introduced: one
> Dijkstra. Another one objected that such a unit would be unpractical,
> since in everyday use one would only need picoDijkstra's.

Yes he's indeed the man who said computer science had nothing to
with computers. Have you seen this impressive list of EWD:s
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/indexEWDnums.html

all the best,
Harald