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The humble programmer

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Dijkstra, Edsger W.·1972·Communications of the ACM
DOI 10.1145/355604.361591
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Communications of the ACMI was supposed to study theoretical physics at the University of Leiden simultaneously, and as I found the two activities harder and harder ,to combine, I had to make up my mind, either to stop programming and become a real, respectable theoretical physicist, or to carry my study of physics to a formal completion only, with a minimum of effort, and to become..., yes what?A programmer?But was that a respectable profession?After all, what was programming?Where was the sound body of knowledge that could sup-

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Authors
Dijkstra, E. W.
Venue
Communications of the ACM
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
1972-10
Volume
15
Issue
10
Pages
859-866
ISSN
  • 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7317
DOI
10.1145/355604.361591
OpenAlex
W2124209077
Cited by
705
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110.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
bronze
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