Andrew Helwer on Nostr: I kept seeing the codes "ewd426" or "ewd687a" floating around the distributed systems ...
I kept seeing the codes "ewd426" or "ewd687a" floating around the distributed systems community, turns out this is common shorthand referring to algorithms from Edsger W. Dijkstra's many publications as indexed & transcribed on this site:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/transcriptions.htmlPretty impressive to have such a large & influential body of work that algorithms become known as indices into that work!
#distributedsystems #dijkstra #computerscience
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