April 21, 2007 at 18:19Dijkstra Archive
Edsger W. Dijkstra (Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, 1930 - 2002) - one of the creators of modern programming. He was part of a team that wrote a compiler from ALGOL 60. Dijkstra's famous article “On the dangers of the GO TO statement” ( Go To Statement Considered Harmful ), published in March 1968, laid the foundation for a structured approach to programming.
This was followed by the book “Notes on structural programming” (Dal W., Dijkstra E., Hoore K. Structural programming. - M.: “World”, 1975) and “Discipline of programming” (M .: Mir, 1978).
For more than four decades, Dijkstra has remained one of those who determined the direction of development of science and programming technology. He enjoyed tremendous authority.
Dijkstra was a very orderly person and had the habit of accurately recording or typing, and then sending his correspondents his notes, short articles, comments, thoughts, travel reports. More than 1300 such notes have accumulated.
Employees at the University of Texas Computer Science faculty, where Dijkstra taught the last 18 years of his life, digitized this entire archive. Now the archive Dijkstra as a PDF-file, along with a number of other materials, including video and audio interviews with Dijkstra, is publicly available.
Originals of manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, photographs of Dijkstra are at the Center for American History of the University of Texas .
This was followed by the book “Notes on structural programming” (Dal W., Dijkstra E., Hoore K. Structural programming. - M.: “World”, 1975) and “Discipline of programming” (M .: Mir, 1978).
For more than four decades, Dijkstra has remained one of those who determined the direction of development of science and programming technology. He enjoyed tremendous authority.
Dijkstra was a very orderly person and had the habit of accurately recording or typing, and then sending his correspondents his notes, short articles, comments, thoughts, travel reports. More than 1300 such notes have accumulated.
Employees at the University of Texas Computer Science faculty, where Dijkstra taught the last 18 years of his life, digitized this entire archive. Now the archive Dijkstra as a PDF-file, along with a number of other materials, including video and audio interviews with Dijkstra, is publicly available.
Originals of manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, photographs of Dijkstra are at the Center for American History of the University of Texas .