[webdevver]

the only meaningful contribution this guy made was his prose. certainly a talented constructor of sentences, i could never write as precisely as him.

but as far as meaningful technical contributions, i struggle to find anything. his path search algorithm, no offence, is self-evident.

for all the disdain he appears to have had for (what we now call) the 'move fast and break things' style of engineering/science, they were the ones that gave us everything today. you innovate by running experiments, not philosophising and writing proofs.

in retrospect he probably should have stayed on his initial discipline, theoretical physics.

[rramadass]

The most charitable thing i can say about your comment is;

who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities." -- from "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe.

To dismiss you/your comment;

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than Itself; but Talent instantly recognizes Genius.” -- from "The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

To deflate your claim of Dijkstra's Algorithm being "self-evident";

Students Struggle with Concepts in Dijkstra's Algorithm -- https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3632620.3671096

Edsger Dijkstra contributed to;

  1) Algol60 language/compiler 
  2) THE Operating System 
  3) Graph Algorithms (shortest-path etc.) 
  4) Concurrent Algorithms (semaphores, CSP etc.) 
  5) Distributed Algorithms (dining philosophers etc.)
  6) Fault-Tolerant Computing (which he called "Self-Stabilizing Systems") 
  7) Programming Language Design (GCL etc.) 
  8) Structured Programming Techniques. 
  9) Program Correctness Methodologies based on Predicate Calculus to derive Programs (weakest-precondition etc.)
  10) Essays giving insights into "How to Think and Reason Systematically" using commonsense and mathematical Tools.