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Subject: Re: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 02:28:11 08/10/02

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On August 09, 2002 at 17:53:34, Slater Wold wrote:

>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/UTCS/notices/dijkstra/ewdobit.html
>
>1972 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, and much, much more.



A terrible loss. Mr Dijkstra is omnipresent in computer litterature. He clearly
influenced computer science in a major way. Hard to imagine where information
science would be without Turing, Von Neuman, Wirth and Dijkstra.



    Christophe



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