Je ne sais pas si vous êtes au courant (peut-être que quelqu'un a déjà posté cela dans un autre thread que je n'ai pas encore lu) mais notre cher ami Dijkstra nous a quitté ce 6 août 2002, à l'age de 72 ans, des suites d'un cancer.
Beaucoup de jeunes informaticiens pensent du mal de lui, car ils ne pensent qu'aux séances de TP pendant lesquelles leurs petits cerveaux sont mis à contribution. Mais un homme qui a dit ceci : "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence." ne peut être mauvais, et il doit donc être salué avec tous les honneurs.
D'autres citations de ce grand Homme :
- In the good old days physicists repeated each others experiments, just to be sure. Today, they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each others programs. And bugs.
- It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration
- I love mathematics. It's the mathematicians I can't stand
- If somewhere you read : "in depth", ignore it.
- I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulder and say to yourself, "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me
- The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it's clumsy, it's not mathematics