Ran across this old paper from Edsger Dijkstra, discussed on Slashdot:On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science, as a PDF of scanned handwriting or the text transcript.I'm not going to attack or defend the overall thesis, but anyway this paragraph I will agree with:My next linguistical suggestion is more rigorous. It is to fight the "if-this-guy-wants-to-talk-to-that-guy" syndrome: never
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