The Dawn Of Software Engineering From Turing To Dijkstra
by Edgar G. Daylight · first published 2012
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on “Book recommendations about the history of programming” ↗According to Daylight's book The Dawn of Software Engineering: From Turing to Dijkstra, Dijkstra actually advocated adding recursion to Algol 60 despite not having good reasons to use it himself. He felt that it made the language more general, while his detractors at the time felt that…
on “The Humble Programmer (1972)” ↗