Edsger Dijkstra Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Mistake, Perfection, Language

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Mistake, Past, Perfection

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

• It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Mistake, Thinking, Argument

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