Edsger Dijkstra Quotes About Perfection

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  • APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

    Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media
  • I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

  • APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

    Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media
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Edsger Dijkstra

  • Born: May 11, 1930
  • Died: August 6, 2002
  • Occupation: Computer Scientist