All right, he believed that all programming should be done by his approach, or one highly similar. He could train undergrads, but anyone who wasn't trained his way shouldn't be programming. Is that a fair statement?

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thwarted 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This is such a common position in just about every professional industry, codified legally or as personal belief, that it barely qualifies to be called out as unique to Dijkstra.

	▲	kelipso 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, who would say structured programming is bad these days, though maybe it wasn’t a popular sentiment at the time. Though I find this thread funny, “Dijktra was elitist, oh no, he did the gatekeeping, what horror, let’s abandon structured programming and seeing programming as a discipline altogether”.