Dijkstra's Manuscripts Available Online 251
Bodrius writes "Salon has a short but interesting article called GOTO considered joyful, about E. W. Dijkstra's manuscripts, as published by the University of Texas, and their bloggish nature.
I'm not sure if the blog analogy is that accurate, but the articles are a must read for computer scientists and geeks in general." (Annoying but free click-through system for non-subscribers.)
Compelling? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh wait......*
Re:Full Text (Subscribers Only Article) (Score:3, Funny)
GOTO is DYING (Score:2, Funny)
It is official; Salon.com confirms: GOTO is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered GOTO community when IDC confirmed that GOTO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Salon.com survey which plainly states that GOTO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. GOTO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Bjourne Stroustrop to predict GOTO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: GOTO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for GOTO because GOTO is dying. Things are looking very bad for GOTO. As many of us are already aware, GOTO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
GOSUB is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time GOSUB developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: GOSUB is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
JMP leader Theo De Raadt states that there are 7000 users of JMP. How many users of BRANCH are there? Let's see. The number of JMP versus BRANCH posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 BRANCH users. RETURN posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of BRANCH posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of RETURN. A recent article put GOSUB at about 80 percent of the GOTO market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 GOSUB users. This is consistent with the number of GOSUB Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of QBASIC, abysmal sales and so on, GOSUB went out of business and was taken over by VISUAL BASIC.NET who sell another troubled OS. Now VISUAL BASIC.NET is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that GOTO has steadily declined in market share. GOTO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If GOTO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. GOTO continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GOTO is dead.
Fact: GOTO is dying
Re:Can someone shed more light on his misc. info? (Score:5, Funny)
One of my profs said he was giving a speach at Dijkstra's school. He wanted to make sure Dijkstra didn't attend (apperently Dijkstra was an asshole), so he sent out the announcement via email only. This ensured that Dijkstra would never get the announcement, as he did have a computer.
I'm not sure if the blog analogy is that accurate, (Score:5, Funny)
Wife swapping??? (Score:5, Funny)
Tom.
Re:Wife swapping??? (Score:5, Funny)
Now all we need is a p2p program for that, and we're set.
Slashdotters descended from Dijkstra (Score:5, Funny)
Also the Microsoft-like problems that he faces with IBM. His disdain is clearly shown by labelling IBM the devil!
Dijkstra - trolling since 1975 ;)
Re:Can someone shed more light on his misc. info? (Score:3, Funny)
aperçu (Score:3, Funny)
The Fish [altavista.com] says aperçu is a french word that means "outline." Stupid fucking Salon elitist fucktards.
I'm writing obscure french words in an english-language article, thereby ignoring the point of writing it in the first place! I exude a certain je ne sais quoi you cour de merd bourgoise can't approach!
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lol