https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498... – How do we tell truths that might hurt? 1975

FORTRAN —"the infantile disorder"—, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

He told the truth and in turn Fortran corrected its course, but Dijkstra probably didn't change his mind about it.

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> These pioneers, even when they disagreed, had pretty precise arguments and very rarely feeling the feelies.

The feud between Backus and Dijkstra kinda persuaded me of the opposite.

https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your...