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At Schiphol Airport I met the colleagues van der Sluis, Blaauw, and van der Poel. I heard the absence of Verrijn Stuart explained (justified?) by an admiring reference to his mountaineering exploits in the Himalayas. I did not quote Miss Twitterton’s comment when told that Frank Crutchley had taken good care of the cacti [1] because I wasn’t quite sure of the quotation.
“Gawdamighty, wot a tongue! I wonder’er own spit don’t poison’er. I wouldn’t’ang a dog on’er evidence.”
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Dijkstra, E.W. (1982). Trip Report E. W. Dijkstra, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5–10 Sept. 1977. In: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5695-3_56
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