EWD 340: The Humble Programmer
Edsger W. Dijkstra presents a profound meditation on the intellectual challenges of software development in this 1972 Turing Award lecture. He argues that the primary difficulty of programming stems from the limited capacity of the human mind compared to the vast complexity of modern systems. By acknowledging these cognitive boundaries, Dijkstra suggests that practitioners can write better code t…
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