“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people do not have to learn the vast number of formulae they used to learn. Instead, they… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“When any new language design project is nearing completion, there is always a mad rush to get new features added before standardization. The rush… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“I have been giving the best of my advice to this project since 1975. At first I was extremely hopeful. The original objectives of… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“There was no escape: The entire Elliott 503 Mark II software project had to be abandoned, and with it, over thirty man-years of programming… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.” — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit themselves absolutely… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“But to me, each revision of the document simply showed how far the initial Flevel implementation had progressed. Those parts of the language that… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
