Dikjstra had very good command of English for a Dutchman; far better than the average American. It seems he could easily have taught first year English. Look at the way he nicely incorporates quotes and the diction and sentence variety.
From this we can tell where he placed his efforts; if you want to troll computer science on an international level, you better beef up your English!
He would have made a great asset to any software team, as a documenter; I wouldn't have had him write much code, though.
From this we can tell where he placed his efforts; if you want to troll computer science on an international level, you better beef up your English!
He would have made a great asset to any software team, as a documenter; I wouldn't have had him write much code, though.