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microtherion
on March 2, 2011
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Edsger W.Dijkstra - How do we tell truths that mig...
The difference being that, once you set aside Dijkstra's glib aphorisms, there may not BE a 1940 to talk about.
xiongchiamiov
on March 3, 2011
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Dijkstra's algorithm? Postfix notation? A slew of other algorithmic things I don't even understand?
philwelch
on March 3, 2011
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You're talking about the inventor of the shortest-path algorithm and the semaphore.
microtherion
on March 6, 2011
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Obviously, mutual exclusion is widely used. I'm not so sure that semaphores as such are used as widely (and certainly not with functions named P() and V()).
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