Wirth also did not shrink back from laying out some of his philosophical differences with Dijkstra:
"One of Edsger’s most peculiar idiosyncrasies (after 1970) was his vow never to use a computer."
"Edsger had contributed significantly to a well-founded, rigorous approach to programming, in establishing it as an engineering science. I therefore awaited eagerly the appearance of a textbook, a fundamental guide to programming from his pen. But he had lost his interest in this endeavor, and instead concentrated exclusively on mathematical treatments and theories."
I therefore awaited eagerly the appearance of a textbook, a fundamental guide to programming from his pen. But he had lost his interest in this endeavor, and instead concentrated exclusively on mathematical treatments and theories.
So Wirth himself decided to write it viz. Systematic Programming: An Introduction.
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Wirth also did not shrink back from laying out some of his philosophical differences with Dijkstra:
"One of Edsger’s most peculiar idiosyncrasies (after 1970) was his vow never to use a computer."
"Edsger had contributed significantly to a well-founded, rigorous approach to programming, in establishing it as an engineering science. I therefore awaited eagerly the appearance of a textbook, a fundamental guide to programming from his pen. But he had lost his interest in this endeavor, and instead concentrated exclusively on mathematical treatments and theories."
So Wirth himself decided to write it viz. Systematic Programming: An Introduction.