Robert W. Floyd Professions : Computer Scientist Born : June 8, 1936 Died : September 25, 2001 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Robert W. Floyd My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are always struggling to meet some future or past deadline, methodological abstraction is a wise long term investment. Robert W. Floyd struggle wise past The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel. Robert W. Floyd proposal language may 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. Robert W. Floyd command type definitions 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. Robert W. Floyd possibility loss facts If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support. Robert W. Floyd matching support design Similar Authors Bill Joy computer-scientist Butler Lampson computer-scientist Brian Reid computer-scientist Brian Kernighan computer-scientist Andrew S. Tanenbaum computer-scientist Andy Hertzfeld computer-scientist All Authors
