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		timtadh on Aug 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Basic CS Reading List – M. Douglas McIlroy (2010) My favorite is you have all these pun titles and then: > The Humble Programmer - E. W. Dijkstra Which is actually the title of that essay by Dijkstra! http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EW... I guess this guy really doesn't think much of that essay?

jacobolus on Aug 24, 2016 [–]

I assume the joke is about Dijkstra and “humble”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796926

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