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.