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Re: CS in the 90's

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From: he... Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 00:28
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In article <2928.2...@cc.helsinki.fi> mnyk...@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>following sequence of important CS books:
>60's	Donald Knuth		The ART of Computer Programming
>70's	Edsger W. Dijkstra	A DISCIPLINE of Programming
>80's	David Gries		The SCIENCE of Programming
>What about the 90's?

Something like "The ENGINEERING of Programming" would be to the point,
and long overdue.
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It is not possible to both understand  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill|  he...@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
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From: he...@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: CS in the 90's
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