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Entrapping Minnows in the Jar with PL/1
In 1972, Edsger Dijkstra's Turing Award Lecture was published in Communications of the ACM. This lecture, The Humble Programmer, is now available on-line at the Dijkstra Archive, and still greatly worth reading. Dijkstra writes about the need for hierarchical artefacts and for systematic and modest programming languages; about the power of BNF; and about how, when registering for marriage, Amsterdam City Council prohibited him from declaring his profession as "programmer". He writes too about Fortran, Algol, and PL/1; and here we have the source of the notorious comparison between PL/1 and fatal disease:Related Reading
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