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by rramadass 222 days ago
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.