Author Edsger W. Dijkstra introduces A Discipline of Programming with the statement, "My original idea was to publish a number of beautiful ...
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Jun 19, 2010
Max
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This book delivers what I had expected to get from Stepanov and McJones's "Elements of Programming" (note: that book is still great, it's just a different book than I thought it would be).
Dijkstra is a programming legend. Aside from "Goto statement considered harmful" he made a mark in just about any field of programming, from Dijkstra's shortest paths to Dijkstra's banker's algorithm to semaphores to coloring garbage collectors to several others. The opportunity More...
Dijkstra is a programming legend. Aside from "Goto statement considered harmful" he made a mark in just about any field of programming, from Dijkstra's shortest paths to Dijkstra's banker's algorithm to semaphores to coloring garbage collectors to several others. The opportunity More...
Jun 17, 2008
Nick
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The most important book any young programmer could find. It changed my life.
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