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Edsger Dijkstra

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Edsger Dijkstra was a famous Dutch computer scientist who made important contributions to language development, operating systems, graph theory and formal program development.

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  1. Dijkstra EW, Hoare CAR, Dahl OJ (1972) Structured programming. Academic, New York

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  2. Dijkstra EW (1976) A disciple of programming. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs

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  3. Gries D (1981) The science of programming. Springer, Berlin

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O’Regan, G. (2013). Edsger Dijkstra. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_20

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