Edsger Dijkstra explicitly treated elegance and beauty as major virtues of programs.

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"Edsger Dijkstra explicitly treated elegance and beauty as major virtues of programs."

Dijkstra's archival note explicitly places elegance and beauty among the greatest virtues a program can display. + Publication year verified from the CWI repository and the original IFIP Congress proceedings citation.

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Source title Some meditations on Advanced Programming

Source authors Edsger W. Dijkstra

Source year 1962

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