sobota, 5 sierpnia 2023 o 04:47:23 UTC+2 Tim Rentsch napisał(a):
> sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>
> > Malcolm McLean <malcolm.ar...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Friday, 4 August 2023 , a...@littlepinkcloud.invalid wrote:
> >>
> >>> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.ar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> [Edsger] Dijkstra was a notorious leftie. He was also a very
> >>>> clever man, and of course he right that trying to measure
> >>>> programming productivity by counting lines written is idiotic.
> >>>
> >>> That comment about Dijkstra being a leftie, and even notorious for
> >>> it, really struck me. I've been intermittently reading Dijkstra's
> >>> work for decades, and I've never come across anything particularly
> >>> left wing. Have you got any references for that?
> >>
> >> You haven't been around long enough to remember Edward Nilges.
> >> He's now sadly deceased (he reconciled with the Church before death
> >> so is now almost certainly in heaven). Nilges was very fond of
> >> quoting Dijkstra in support of his views.
> >
> > That doesn't answer the question.
> >
> > What, specifically, has Dijkstra said that supports your assertion
> > that he was a "notorious lefty". He actually did some work for a
> > former employer of mine, and I never heard anything to that effect.
> I recognize that you are sincere in asking your question,
> but I would like to ask everyone please keep any discussion
> or comments (whether lighthearted or not) about politics
> or religion out of comp.lang.c. We have more than enough
> useless traffic as it is.

the politic came into this group here from side as some
people who share view that capitalism programing is more
'decent' that other programming ..
pure programing has nothing to capitalism imo

in soeme funny way politics also show as kind of assumptions people make (for example the sahared ideas thet this gorup should
talk almost exclusively on c standard (which for me for
example are such marginal problemst nearly no use at all)
is political view )

overally when those deadly sh*T trolls vanished nice to see this group is in so much good form