A discipline of programming by Edsger W. Dijkstra

A discipline of programming



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A discipline of programming Edsger W. Dijkstra ebook
Page: 232
ISBN: 013215871X, 9780132158718
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.
Format: djvu


Dijkstra * Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc. Testing an application, particularly if it is user facing as most of my 3 decades of work has been, is a discipline all by itself. Programming languages are intolerant of error in grammar or syntax. A Discipline of Programming (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation) By E. As I recently noted, I'm making some shifts in my work so that I can focus more on some of these questions surrounding how do we create learning environments for non-programmers to learn programming. Likewise programming is nothing like testing either. Programming can mean a number of. Programming is unfortunately such a general term these days that I often find myself cringing at its use in broader contexts. Dijkstra made a similar argument on page 56 of his book "A Discipline of Programming", together with another argument in support of the != form. It's also a discipline which, like martial arts, changes fundamentally the way you see the universe, once you get far enough in and become advanced enough. It's important to remember that all programming languages require a discipline that most of us don't have. If DH were an accepted discipline, the recognition of programming activities or contributions to databases as scholarly accomplishment would not be such a big deal.