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An Interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra.

The article presents an interview with computer programmer Edsger W. Dijkstra. Dijkstra comments on how he left the Netherlands to study computer programming in Cambridge, England and how he developed an algorithm to find the shortest distance between two points as a way of demonstrating the Automat...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 8; pp. 41 - 48
Main Author: Misa, Thomas J.
Format: Interview
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2010
Subjects:
Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe
Computer programmers
Computer programming education
Multilingualism
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article presents an interview with computer programmer Edsger W. Dijkstra. Dijkstra comments on how he left the Netherlands to study computer programming in Cambridge, England and how he developed an algorithm to find the shortest distance between two points as a way of demonstrating the Automatic Calculator Mathematical Centre (ARMAC) system. He comments on how multilingualism is useful in computer programming.