Edsger Dijkstra

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2026-09-12

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Dijkstra, Knuth, Kernighan: 10 Quotes That Predicted the AI Coding Debate

A developer revisits ten decades-old quotes from computer scientists including Edsger Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, Brian Kernighan, and Grady Booch, arguing they anticipated the current debate over AI-assi…

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2026-08-02

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Your Tests Passed. That Is Not the Same as Correct.

Raghu Bharadwaj, writing for TECH VEDA, warns that a passing test suite does not prove code correctness, citing Edsger Dijkstra's 1970 observation that testing can show bugs but never their absence. H…

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Raghu Bharadwaj 1 TECH VEDA 1 Donald Knuth 1 Brian Kernighan 1 Grady Booch 1 Harold Abelson 1 Gerald Sussman 1 Fred Brooks 1

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developer tools 2 artificial intelligence 1 ai tools 1 generative ai 1 large language models 1 ai agents 1