E W Dijkstra has died

[Pradip Bhat]

Computer Science pioneer E W Dijkstra passed away on Wednesday in Netherlands.
I saw only one news on yahoo and UT Austin website.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020808/ap_wo_en_po/us_obit_dijkstra_1
Any otherlinks will be appreciated.
Any java rancher who was fortunate to hear any of his lectures?

[David O'Meara]

Yep, already a thread in the Java News forum here
Dave

[Barry Gaunt]

Very sad. I have programmed in Algol 60, read his "GOTO considered harmful" paper when it was first published, and still have a copy of "a discipline of programming". I'll read the latter again today.
The modern computing community, (not just Java) has a lot to thank this man (and his contempories) for.
Maybe the Java designers should now finally banish "goto" from the language keywords as a sign of respect.
To Moderator: This thread should be moved to a more suitable topic title.
-Barry

[Jim Yingst]

To Moderator: This thread should be moved to a more suitable topic title.
Such as?

[Barry Gaunt]

Jim, I just noticed that topic "Java News" has similar thread; maybe there?
Ho Hum, er...
I had been awake I would have read the first reply to this thread, and placed my contribution there.
Like, is being a moderator, the final torment?
-Barry
[ August 09, 2002: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]