A brilliant
computer scientist who researched program correctness, mathematical methodologies,
algorithms, and systems. In
1968 Dijkstra wrote a letter to an editor entitled "
GO TO Statement Considered Harmful", (
Comm. ACM, August 1968), and began the movement toward reliable software development. Or so they say. He is probably best known for his
shortest path algorithm, used in such link-state algorithm .
"Dijkstra probably hates me."
-Linus Torvalds