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20 Years Ago Today: Dijkstra's "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science" (utexas.edu)
7 points by michael_dorfman on Dec 2, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Thanks for posting this Michael (saw it on /. too). A much better read than the terrorism submissions that seem to be showing up here lately.

A title correction however: Should be 'Computing' Science. I might be wrong but I think Dijkstra drew a deliberate distinction between the two.

The precision of his words is refreshing.


Thanks for the correction.




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