The last sentence of Edsger Dijkstra’s report on the “green” proposal for what would later become the Ada programming language

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Matthew Brett

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January 23, 2015

The last sentence of Edsger Dijkstra's report on the "green" proposal for what would later become the Ada programming language:

"When I came down for dinner and my wife asked me how things were, I could only summarize: 'Technical incompetence, probably enhanced by dishonesty' "

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd06xx/EWD660.PDF

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