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This is such a common position in just about every professional industry, codified legally or as personal belief, that it barely qualifies to be called out as unique to Dijkstra.

Yes, who would say structured programming is bad these days, though maybe it wasn’t a popular sentiment at the time. Though I find this thread funny, “Dijktra was elitist, oh no, he did the gatekeeping, what horror, let’s abandon structured programming and seeing programming as a discipline altogether”.

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