lies about OOP

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Wed Dec 15 10:18:33 EST 2004


Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Paul McGuire wrote:
>> "Martijn Faassen" <faassen at infrae.com> wrote in message
>> <snip - it's "Dijkstra" not "Djikstra", you dolt! :)>
>>
>> Yikes!  (or better, "Jikes!" or even "Yijkes!"?) - my bad.
>> And he was on faculty at UT right here in Austin, too.
> 
> It's a very common mistake I've seen so often that for a while I 
> wondered whether his name really *was* Djikstra, but I knew he was Dutch 
> and that it couldn't be so. That the PSU picked you for its disclosure 
> is just a random coincidence, I'm sure.. :)

Well, in any case, thanks for setting the record straight, Martjin.



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