Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective - 9781461256977

Selected Writings on Computing: A personal PerspectiveAuthor(s): Edsger W. Dijkstra\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., United States\nImprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.\nISBN-13: 9781461256977, 978-1461256977\nSynopsis\nSince the summer of 1973, when I became a Burroughs Research Fellow, my life has been very different from what it had been before. The daily routine changed: instead of going to the University each day, where I used to spend most of my time in the company of others, I now went there only one day a week and was most of the time -that is, when not travelling!- alone in my study. In my solitude, mail and the written word in general became more and more important. The circumstance that my employer and I had the Atlantic Ocean between us was a further incentive to keep a fairly complete record of what I was doing. The public part of that output found its place in what became known as \""the EWD series\"", which can be viewed as a form of scient.