Edsger Dijkstra: 1930-2002

[Jerry Feldman]

We sure did. Dijkstra's work made modern operating systems possible. Could 
we have a modern OS without his semaphores. 
On 8 Aug 2002 at 8:31, Kevin D. Clark wrote:

> 
> Wow.  We lost a great one.
> 
> As it happens, a couple of months ago I was stuck on a hard problem
> (distributed termination of some asynchronous processes).  For a
> couple of days I deeply pondered this problem, and then I eventually
> found a paper that Dijkstra wrote on this subject.  The paper was
> clear enough, and it took me an hour to implement this algorithm.
> Bingo -- problem solved.  Dijkstra's paper helped me solve a difficult
> problem with a minimum of hassle.
> 
> He will be missed.
> 
> --kevin
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