Edsger Dijkstra: 1930-2002

[kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com (Kevin D. Clark)]

Wow.  We lost a great one.

As it happens, a couple of months ago I was stuck on a hard problem
(distributed termination of some asynchronous processes).  For a
couple of days I deeply pondered this problem, and then I eventually
found a paper that Dijkstra wrote on this subject.  The paper was
clear enough, and it took me an hour to implement this algorithm.
Bingo -- problem solved.  Dijkstra's paper helped me solve a difficult
problem with a minimum of hassle.

He will be missed.

--kevin
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