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by martinjacobd
1134 days ago
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As even the OOP states, Dijikstra didn't choose this title, though. Niklaus Wirth did. From a different reference: > Finally a short story for the record. In 1968, the Communications of the ACM published [...] "The goto statement considered harmful," which in later years would be most frequently referenced, regrettably, however, often by authors who had seen no more of it than its title, which became a cornerstone of my fame by becoming a template [....] But what had happened? I had submitted a paper under the title "A case against the goto statement," which in order to speed up its publication, the editor had changed into a "Letter to the Editor," and in the process he had given it a new title of his own invention! The editor was Niklaus Wirth. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1308.PDF (In Dijkstra's own, very beautiful print hand!) |
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