Edsger W. Dijkstra personal blog
The Humble Programmer (1972)
As a result of a long sequence of coincidences I entered the programming profession officially on the first spring morning of 1952 and as far as I have been able to trace, I was the first Dutchman to do so in my country. In retrospect the most amazing thing was the slowness with which, at least in my part of the…
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| Jun 17, 2025 | The Humble Programmer (1972) by squircle | 135 | 36 |
| Jun 19, 2016 | E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer by mrzool | 124 | 44 |
| Oct 1, 2011 | The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra by zengr | 56 | 3 |
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