To the designer of programming languages, I say: unless you… - Robert W. Floyd

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To the designer of programming languages, I say: unless you can support the paradigms I use when I program, or at least support my extending your language into one that does support my programming methods, I don't need your shiny new languages. [...] To persuade me of the merit of your language, you must show me how to construct programs in it.

Robert W. Floyd

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Robert W Floyd (June 8, 1936 – September 25, 2001) was an American computer scientist, and winner of the 1978 Turing Award.

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Birth Name: Robert Willoughby Floyd

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If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability, [...] This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop.

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