4 Dec
2020
4 Dec
'20
9:35 a.m.
I have gone down the rabbit hole of this and I can not thank you enough.
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:51:30PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
Last night I stumbled upon this speech by Doug McIlroy
at Dijkstra's retirement banquet @ UT Austin where he tells the story of his first
encounter with EWD and the origins of programming without goto.... Given that we recently
had a discussion on "Goto considered harmful", you all may enjoy it. Make sure
you watch the start of part 10 as well as that is where the story ends.
https://youtu.be/5OUPBwrufKA?list=PL328C7EFFC1F41674&t=326
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