[vox] Dijkstra was ahead of his time!

[Kevin Schultz]

Hi Brian,

Awesome. Thanks for sharing this.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:

> I just listened to this speech by Disjkstra in 1972, an amazing speech. He
> discusses abstraction, something today we only seem to be grasping well
> in the field of computer science. I am sure as we move along, Z, VDM
> and SPARK/ADA,  Domain Specific languages and formal methods will play
> an increasing role. I like Dijkstra's critique of the one liner, very
> funny.
>
> For some reason, part 5 has music that you have to
> skip over. Mabye it was intermission.
>
> Edsger Dijkstra's Turing Award Speech
> 1972 Turing Award
> 8 parts to the speech on YouTube
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sIlKP2LzbA&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS8M5eom80&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKiVz71AVKg&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agYsh_z6stY&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfn4OmoGdcc&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S4lDIaGgsM&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDvaEiK__B8&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-QBD8Ao_oA&feature=related
>
> brian
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
>
> "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to
> show their absence!"
>
> Professor Edsger Dijkstra
> 1972 Turing award recipient
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