What the fuck was wrong with Dijkstra?
>As a university professor for much of his life, Dijkstra saw teaching not just as a required activity but as a serious research endeavour.[6] His approach to teaching was unconventional.[17] His lecturing style has been described as idiosyncratic. When lecturing, the long pauses between sentences have often been attributed to the fact that English is not Dijkstra's first language. However the pauses also served as a way for him to think on his feet and he was regarded as a quick and deep thinker while engaged in the act of lecturing. His courses for students in Austin had little to do with computer science but they dealt with the presentation of mathematical proofs.[10] At the beginning of each semester, he would take a photo of each of his students in order to memorize their names. He never followed a textbook, with the possible exception of his own while it was under preparation. When lecturing, he would write proofs in chalk on a blackboard rather than using overhead foils. He invited the students to suggest ideas, which he then explored, or refused to explore because they violated some of his tenets. He assigned challenging homework problems, and would study his students' solutions thoroughly. He conducted his final examinations orally, over a whole week. Each student was examined in Dijkstra's office or home, and an exam lasted several hours.[6]
What's the Dijkstra threads?
He was incredibly based and would hate the state of computer science today.
>Dijkstra also opposed the inclusion of software engineering under the umbrella of academic computer science. He wrote that, "As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "The Doomed Discipline", doomed because it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory." And "software engineering has accepted as its charter 'How to program if you cannot.'"[19]
Looks like he found the right path.
i like to believe he would intermediately switc h to computational linguistics and spend all his time trying to make GPUs do what humans fail to do all too often.
and then punish those who use COBOL
>What the fuck was wrong with Dijkstra?
Nothing? This seems absolutely based on all counts.
Basado. Why isn't he in the sticky?
I don't think LULZ is very academic. Actual comp sci students are a bit homeless on LULZ
I wish we had a new board for comsci, then LULZ can be the consumer/gaymer/ricing board.
It would surely get overwhelmed within weeks in much the same way that LULZ and LULZ have been.
I don't know why LULZ doesn't accept us. Their board is dead anyway
Don't they? Computer science threads work as well there as all other actual-science threads. That is to say, not very, for they tend to get overwhelmed with idiots and schizos and so the people with something interesting to say stay away; but they're not exactly discouraged or Wrong board'd either.
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he was not worthy of this effortpost. it probably flies right over his little head
Which is why he got a GPT post.
I didn't appreciate it enough while it was around.
I miss /prog/. It was the closest we had. Removing text boards was a mistake.
YOU HAVE ANGERED AN EXPERT PROGRAMMER
is it archived?
>Each student was examined in Dijkstra's office or home
he was pedo molester. case closed,
>What was wrong with Dijkstra
>proceeds to post evidence that he was a great teacher who cared about educating his students.
He was original and brilliant. I don't know why you would think something was wrong with the man.
He was Dutch. That's what was wrong with him.
t. married to a Dutch woman
they really are the worst ball-busters in europe. Djikstra was giga based tho
he was elite and subhuman scum like you will never understand.
i will give him his revenge, even in death.
>this easily led/impressed
>calls anybody else in the universe subhuman
>literally one of the first ever, the dutch authorities didn't even believe him when he said his profession was "computer science"
sit down kiddo
he's right up there with knuth and the rest
Look at this moron trying to channel Dijkstra with his whining and projection. What a fucking sheep.
this sounds like exceptionally run of the mill Dutch teaching. Every one of my university courses (mathematics) was like this.
>with the possible exception of his own
>while it was under preparation
kek