Even perfect program verification can only establish that a program meets its specification. […] Much of the essence of building a program is in fact… - Fred Brooks

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Even perfect program verification can only establish that a program meets its specification. […] Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

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Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was a computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, most famous for managing the development of IBM's System/360 Computer family hardware and then OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards.

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Birth Name: Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.
Alternative Names: Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks, Jr Frederick P. Brooks Frederick Phillips
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The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture,

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