Re: OT: R.I.P. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 00:14:43 GMT-3


   
At 9:18 PM -0500 8/7/02, Frank Jimenez wrote:
>Not everyday a luminary in the computing world passes away:
>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/UTCS/notices/dijkstra/ewdobit.html
>
>Some notable quotes:
>http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in:8000/~rkj/dijkstraquotes.html
>
>
>I still remember sitting in on some of his lectures back when I was
>attending UT in the late 80's. (God, am I already *that* old?) Truly a
>loss.
>
>IF you don't know why his name is relevant to a Cisco CCIE study group,
>THEN GOTO studying_some_more;
>
>Frank Jimenez, CCIE #5738
>franjime@cisco.com

Damn. Aside from his great contributions to software and mathematics,
which underlie some of the key functions in routing, he was both a
genuine, funny man and a fine teacher. I'll never forget his long
shaggy dog story on how to pronounce his name whether it was called
by value or called by reference.

He will be missed.

Howard



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