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user-inactivated  ·  3711 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why do array indices start at zero?

    “Too dumb to rise to the level of wrong?” Edsger Dijkstra? Really?

If you read the comments below the article, he addresses somebody who said the exact same thing:

    Dijkstra’s a very smart, eminently respectable fellow, and I have no quarrel with him. People citing an only-tangentially-related paper written by Dijkstra twenty years after the fact is where the “too dumb to rise to the level of wrong” part comes into play.