Group photo of the attendees of the "Year of Programming" symposium held at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Austin, Texas in 1988. I did not take this photo, but I am in it. So are some great computer scientists, such as Edsger W.Dijkstra, John W. Backus, C. A. R. Hoare, Peter Wegner, David Turner, Richard S. Bird, Samson Abramsky, etc. The topic of discussion at this six-day symposium was Functional Programming.

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"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better."

— Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930-2002) "On the nature of Computing Science" (EWD896) August 10, 1984

Image: [Computer humor is always lost on the laity] Form RFC791 for Internet Protocol (circa 1999)

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