Edsger Dijkstra Quotes About Purpose
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It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.
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So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.
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The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
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