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It is time to unmask the computing community as a Secret Society for the Creation and Preservation of Artificial Complexity.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, mathematician, and science essayist.

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Native Name: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Alternative Names: Dijkstra • E. W. Dijkstra • Edsger Dijkstra • EWD

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In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

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