I thought I was the “Only One”!
Mr. Dijkstra, you are my hero. CS people know him because of his Narcissistic tendencies, most notably naming an algorithm after himself. I mean, who names anything after themselves?
Well, to the point, Dijkstra had the EWD manuscripts, and in one, EWD 1036, he notes something I have been wondering about myself for years…
We are hardly less primitive: why do we persist here in answering the telephone with the most unhelpful “hello” instead of our name?