Alan Kay on Dijkstra
vermilyerCited 3× on HN, 2016-2020
20K views · 15 years ago · comedy · evergreen
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
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
"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.)
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'."