Comment by enord

It’s a real shame Dijkstra rubbed so many people the wrong way.

Maybe his incisive polemic, which I greatly enjoy, was all but pandering to a certain elitist sensibility in the end.

To make manageable programs, you have to trade off execution speed both on the cpu and in the organization. His rather mathematized prescriptions imply we should hire quarrelsome academics such as him to reduce performance and slow down product development[initially…] all in the interest of his stratified sensibilities of elegance and simplicity.

Sucks to be right when that’s the truth.