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Thursday, August 08, 2002 Flu-like illness Kills 238 in Madagascar Reuters: Flu-like illness Kills 238 in Madagascar comment []  1:24:42 PM     Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 Professor Edsger Dijkstra has died. A sad note. Professor Edsger Dijkstra has died. His work touched my life, as a computer science grad student in the 1970s, learning Algol after being trained in Fortran. Dijkstra was the advocate of goto-less programming, and argued that Algol-like languages should omit the sin that Fortran and Basic depended on for logic and looping. A strange concept at first, I don't think he managed to get the goto out of Algol, it's definitely in Pascal and I think it's in C; but get this -- there's no goto statement in my favorite Algol-like language, the one that's baked into Radio and Frontier. Let that be a humble tribute to Professor Dijkstra from an admiring student. [Scripting News] Dijkstra touched everyone that has anything to do with computer science or programming. Even if they don't all realize it. comment []  11:00:11 AM     © Copyright 2002 Brian St. Pierre. Last update: 9/6/2002; 11:12:02 AM. August 2002 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Jul   Sep