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E. W. Dijkstra
“Finally a short story for the record. In 1968, the Communications of the ACM published a text of mine under the title "The goto statement considered harmful", which in later years would be most frequently referenced, regrettably, however, often by authors who had seen no more of it than its title, which became a cornerstone of my fame by becoming ( Read more... ) -
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“ One of the examples is to illustrate and test the difference between //para[1] and /descendant::para[1]. The difference is explained in a note to Section 2.5 of the XPath Recommendation. After considerable practice, I need to read the note only twice or thrice to remember what this distinction is. SXPath somehow is capable of reproducing the ( Read more... )
