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Article #20358Re: foreign language requirements for PhDs
From: Dr Lothar Borrmann
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 17:01
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 17:01
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In article <210@wc8.idca.tds.philips.nl> lexw@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Lex Wassenberg) writes: > >Apparantly, Dijkstra himself >is the only one who can say anything about this topic with authority. But during >the course, we discussed it several times (we were with 16 Dutch guys) and >nobody could give any satisfying explanation for the P and V abbreviations, so >we decided that that the story might be true. > I read Dijstra's papers some years ago and I remember that he himself gives the explanation (probably in the paper about "The THE Multiprocessing System"). I don't have the paper at hand, but I remember the meaning (as the Dutch words are similar to German). P is the abbreviation of the Dutch word for 'test' V is the abbreviation of the Dutch word for 'increment' Hope this helps. _____________________________________________________________________________ Lothar Borrmann Email: Siemens AG EUnet lbo@ztivax.uucp Corporate Research and Technology or ...!unido!ztivax!lbo ZFE F2 SYS 3 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 Internet lbo@ztivax.siemens.com D-8000 Muenchen 83 West Germany _____________________________________________________________________________
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!ztivax!lbo From: lbo@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Lothar Borrmann) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: foreign language requirements for PhDs Keywords: Dijkstra, P, V, operators Message-ID: <653@ztivax.UUCP> Date: 17 Mar 89 17:01:20 GMT References: <7287@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <2851@eos.UUCP> <401@rb-dc1.UUCP> <21572@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1280@wpi.wpi.edu> <134@cs.columbia.edu> <210@wc8.idca.tds.philips.nl> Reply-To: lbo@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Lothar Borrmann) Organization: Siemens AG in Munich, W-Germany Lines: 27