Thank you for this treatment. I agree 100% with you, people for opinions about the name Dijkstra based on silly echoes of polemics that lost much of the irony in their origination.
The replies here I think support that. Dijkstra had a lot of radical ideas about computer science and I am glad to have the opportunity to read about them. When I read his texts I feel like I'm drinking from a pristine fountain and all my wandering was worth having found it at last. But people do have strong knee-jerk reactions about Dijkstra's name and some of his jabs taken out of context.
The replies here I think support that. Dijkstra had a lot of radical ideas about computer science and I am glad to have the opportunity to read about them. When I read his texts I feel like I'm drinking from a pristine fountain and all my wandering was worth having found it at last. But people do have strong knee-jerk reactions about Dijkstra's name and some of his jabs taken out of context.