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		alex_muscar on May 29, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979) > Would there be enough interest in having these letters in searchable form to motivate the effort? Yes, please :). Esp. Dijkstra's letter from the 5th of Apr '79. It's a bit hard to read. Thanks for making them available.

EdwardCoffin on May 29, 2016 [–]

update - not working on this one now. The pages are pretty readable, if you save them. The image display stuff that medium is using is what screws them up to the point of unreadability.

alex_muscar on May 29, 2016 | [–]

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