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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Born: May 11, 1930
Died: August 6, 2002 (aged 72)
Bio: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist. A theoretical physicist by training, he worked as a programmer at the Mathematisch Centrum from 1952 to 1962.
Known for:
- A Discipline of Programming (1976)
- Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics (1990)
- A Method of Programming (1988)
- Structured Programming (1972)
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