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Looks like today is a day for very short postings.

Because of a discussion in the forum at FMI.bgstudent.org I had to look for some things by Edsger W. Dijkstra on the topic of University Education , and started rereading some of his writings. The man was a genius (rest in peace), a while ago I read his Memorial Resolution … For everyone that doesn’t want to read that, we owe to him not only the shortest-path algorithm, but the idea for the real-time interrupts, the stack and it’s use in the recursion (and implementing them in the first language that supported them, ALGOL-60), and a lot of other great things.

Visit his site. It’s worth it.

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