From: Carlos G Mendioroz (tron@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 08:31:17 GMT-3
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
Oh yes, the OSPF alg :-)
Now, seriously, I envy those of you that met him personally.
I'm proud of being a programmer because of him.
Live long on our souls! R.I.P.
I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and
dirty,
you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say
to
yourself, "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well that would be
enough
immortality for me.
E.W.D.
-- Carlos G Mendioroz <tron@huapi.ba.ar> LW7 EQI Argentina
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