Wednesday, November 08, 2006
11-8-06
Edsger Dijkstra, the winner of the Turing Award in 1972 and one of the greatest computer scientists of all time, hardly ever used a computer. He didn't even own one for several decades; and when he finally got a Mac, he only used it for email and web browsing. Prior to that, he had his secretary print all his emails and type up his handwritten replies.
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