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jakespoonon A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later

Title may be correct. First sentence is totally wrong. Why would I read further?

jakespoonon Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

I should have been clear with my response that I accept and agree with your criticism of my post.

"He tried to destroy it" is too strong. I will back down from that.

jakespoonon Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

So, looking back from 2020, did Backus oversell it? We aren't there yet but it still looks like the right direction to me.

jakespoonon Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

Backus literally inspired functional programming with his Turing acceptance and Dijkstra attacked him for it. Dijkstra attacked the paper that inspired Haskell and everything else that currently exists in FP. He tried to destroy it. He should be a footnote in history.