On 6/02/23 4:23 am, Weatherby,Gerard wrote:
Well, first of all, while there is no doubt as to Dijkstra’s contribution to computer science, I don’t think his description of scientific thought is correct. The acceptance of Einstein’s theory of relativity has nothing to do with internal consistency or how easy or difficult to explain but rather repeatedly experimental results validating it.
I don't think Dijkstra was claiming that what he was talking about was a *complete* description of scientific thought, only that the ability to separate out independent concerns is an important part of it, and that was something he saw his colleagues failing to do. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
