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    Alan Kay on Dijkstra

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    3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2016–2020

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    2:39 · 20K views · Jun 7, 2011

    A short clip of Alan Kay commenting on Edsger Dijkstra in a humorous, pointed way.

    HN links it as a joke in threads about Dijkstra's writings, not as a recommendation.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @elcapitanJan 2016· in “On the fact that the Atlantic Ocean has two sides (1982) [pdf]”

      Not advocating Alan Kay's view on Dijkstra here, but his answer to this is still very funny: this video "You may know that arrogance in computer science is measured in Nano-Dijkstras. [..] I wrote a rebuttal paper just named 'On the fact that most software in the world is written on one side of the Atlantic'."

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    2. @dshepSep 2020· in “On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1979)”

      For better or worst, reading Dijkstra always reminds of these funny (I think) comments that Alan Kay made in 1997... "Arrogance in Computer Science is measured in nano-Dijkstras" --Alan Kay Video: this video

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    3. @jimhefferonJul 2020· in “The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (1991)”

      "Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstra's" - Alan Kay ( this video ) (I usually like Dijkstra's works but the quote does make a person smile.)

      AsideView on HN