Edsger Dijkstra, the legendary Dutch computer scientist behind shortest-path algorithms and famously opinionated takes on programming, now has his personal library properly archived. According to a catalogued inventory, his papers, notes, and correspondence are housed at the University of Leuven in Belgium. It's the kind of institutional preservation that figures of his intellectual stature deserve.

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