Dijkstra on Webster, users, bugs and Aristotle
From the blog "Programming Lore"
Every programmer should read what Edsger Dijkstra wrote as part of their Education. The University of Texas hosts a comprehensive Archive of Dijkstra's writings
Perhaps my faovourite piece is what he wrote about "Users" in EWD618.
In the context of the article Dijkstra was calling this kind of stereotyping out saying that
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