He considered the "goto" statement to be harmful.
Edsger W. Dijkstra has written: 'Table of Everett's interpolation coefficients' 'A primer of Algol 60 programming'
Edsger Dijkstra was born on May 11, 1930.
Edsger Dijkstra was born on May 11, 1930.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist...
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist...
Edsger Dijkstra died on August 6, 2002 at the age of 72.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra has written: 'Selected writings on computing' -- subject(s): Computer programming, Computers, Electronic data processing 'EWD 316' -- subject(s): Computer programming 'A method of programming' -- subject(s): Computer programming 'A discipline of programming' -- subject(s): Computer programming
Edsger Dijkstra died on August 6, 2002 at the age of 72.
Edsger Dijkstra was born on May 11, 1930 and died on August 6, 2002. Edsger Dijkstra would have been 72 years old at the time of death or 85 years old today.
Some big names in the field: * Edsger Dijkstra * Alan Kay * Donald Knuth * Dennis Ritchie * Ken Thompson * Alan Turing (if you include theoretical machines) * Niklaus Wirth
"He studies astronomy".A2:"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."- Edsger Dijkstra
The short answer is that goto statements generally cause messy and hard to read code. This reduces the ability to update that code. Also it was proven that nearly everything that goto was used for could be done using other control statements like the while loop or function calls. for a more informative answer go here http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD215.HTML