I mourn the death of Prof. Dijkstra, one of the pioneers of computer science, and a guru of my gurus. (First seen on Scripting.com)
I never met him (he was at U.Texas @ Austin), but have heard fascinating stories about him. To my wife, who is an algorithmist (one who designs algorithms), he was a demigod.
"Your algorithms were hard, professor, but we thank you for them."
Rediff.com: 60 Years ago today, the Quit India Movement was launched.
