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0 pointsvanderZwan9y ago0 comments

> He loved to be the way he was and pushed it.

So are you saying that you said this as a friendly jab, knowing he would probably love it himself?

> His comment about OOP (a rather different kind of thing at Xerox PARC than what the term means today) did not bother any of us at all

So he did actually say that quote about OOP? Do you happen to know the source?

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chx9y ago

According to this https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Dijkstra-say-that-%E2%80%9CObj... the quote was spoken to Bob Crawford in 1988 or so and appeared in the journal TUG LINES produced by the Turbo user's group, Issue 32 (August September 1989). Bob Crawford is alive, I presume one could ask him but I would rather not even link his faculty page because I am afraid he will be inundated by an avalanche of HN readers.

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0 pointsvanderZwan9y ago0 comments

> He loved to be the way he was and pushed it.

So are you saying that you said this as a friendly jab, knowing he would probably love it himself?

> His comment about OOP (a rather different kind of thing at Xerox PARC than what the term means today) did not bother any of us at all

So he did actually say that quote about OOP? Do you happen to know the source?

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chx9y ago

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