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Comment by grahamlee

3 months ago

Dijkstra also advocated for proving the correctness of imperative code using the composition of a set of simple rules, and most programmers ignore that aspect of his work too.

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seumars  3 months ago

Any specific paper or article of his you would recommend?

  • sitkack  3 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_transformer_semantic...

    Found in about 9 seconds.

  • grahamlee  3 months ago

    _A Discipline of Programming_

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