From: Martin Thornquist
Subject: Re: Edsger W. Dijkstra
Date: 
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Ole-Johan Dahl passed away earlier this summer, Dijkstra last week,
and Kristen Nyg�rd this weekend. As someone recently said, soon we
will no longer be able to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.

It has been a great priviledge to be able to meet some of those giants
in person.


Martin
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From: Steven E. Harris
Subject: Re: Edsger W. Dijkstra
Date: 
Message-ID: <8765ye20o3.fsf@harris.sdo.us.ray.com>
> "An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader."
>                                                  -Paul Graham, On Lisp

This is my favorite quote from On Lisp. I copied it down the moment I
read it.

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From: Raymond Wiker
Subject: Re: Edsger W. Dijkstra
Date: 
Message-ID: <86r8h2vii1.fsf@raw.grenland.fast.no>
Steven E. Harris <········@raytheon.com> writes:

> > "An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader."
> >                                                  -Paul Graham, On Lisp
> 
> This is my favorite quote from On Lisp. I copied it down the moment I
> read it.

        It's worth noting that Genera has the following system commands:

Optimize World
Save World Complete

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