From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!pcmcgeer
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Dijkstra
Article-I.D.: watmath.2868
Posted: Tue Jun 29 12:18:51 1982
Received: Thu Jul  1 00:59:59 1982

	I don't mean to start this discussion again, but a couple of quotes:

	"[the second most important skill to programming] is an exceptional
	mastery of one's native tongue" - Edsger W. Dijkstra, quoted last
	month

	"Since many centuries man has characterized natural numbers" - EWD,
	A Discipline of Programming, 1976.

	I realize EWD's native tongue is Dutch, not English, but the
juxtaposition's still pretty funny.

						Cheers,
							Rick.