Via Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard, David R. Tribble annotates Edsger Dijkstra’s “Go To Statement Considered Harmful.”
Dijkstra seems to imply that iterative looping (inductive) statements are intellectually harder to grasp than recursion, which is the kind of thing only a mathematician would say.
Fairfax Cross County Trail, 41 miles: completed 2 July 2010.
Pimmit Run Trail
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath, 184.5 miles
Capital Crescent Trail, 11 miles: completed 10 June 2007
Four Mile Run Trail, 7.5 miles: completed 16 July 2006
Custis Trail, 4 miles: completed 30 March 2006
Mount Vernon Trail, 18 miles: completed 3 February 2006
Washington & Old Dominion Trail, 45 miles: completed 13 March 2005
