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		User23 on Jan 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? Dijkstra’s EWDs are full of examples of thinking about problems mathematically instead of operationally and then deriving elegant procedures.

alanbernstein on Jan 21, 2021 [–]

Do you have any examples to point to?

User23 on Jan 26, 2021 | [–]

Here's one[1].

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd11xx/EWD1162.PDF

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