Journal Paper:

The Humble Programmer

• Edsger Dijkstra
• Recorded 1972 in Communications of the ACM , 15, no. 10, October
• Pages 859-66
• Abstract:
  We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.
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