{"id":328,"date":"2004-06-11T23:08:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2004-06-11T23:08:26","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T21:08:26","slug":"2004-06-11-2308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"2004-06-11 23:08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like today is a day for very short postings.<\/p>\n<p>Because of a discussion in the forum at <a href=\"http:\/\/fmi.bgstudent.org\">FMI.bgstudent.org<\/a> I had to look for some things by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/users\/EWD\/\">Edsger W. Dijkstra<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/users\/EWD\/MemRes(USLtr).pdf\">Memorial Resolution<\/a> &#8230; For everyone that doesn&#8217;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&#8217;s use in the recursion (and implementing them in the first language that supported them, ALGOL-60), and a lot of other great things.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/users\/EWD\/\">his site<\/a>. It&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}