Edsger Dijkstra

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (Rotterdam, May 11, 1930 – Nuenen, August 6, 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 A. M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions in the area of programming languages.

External links and references

• Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 1930–2002
• Biography, Digidome
• Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930–2002): A Portrait of a Genius (PDF) Obituary on Formal Aspects of Computing with a short biography
• Writings by E.W. Dijkstra
• E.W. Dijkstra, Go To Statement Considered Harmful, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11 (1968) 147–148; online edition
• Collected works
• Dutch Pronunciation Guide
• Noorderlicht Interview Video, bandwidth options
• How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975 paper)

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http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF, so I don't think that the set of quotes should be lifted from it. Bubba73 -->

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