Computer language Quote by Jim Horning

The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of…

— Robert W. Floyd

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact…

— Bertrand Russell

“Remember that code is really the language in which we ultimately express the requirements. We may create languages that are closer to the requirements.…

— Robert C. Martin

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but…

— Hal Abelson

“I do not believe we will find the magic here. Program verification is a very powerful concept, and it will be very important for…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .

— Nancy Leveson

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

— Tony Hoare

It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the possibility of…

— Robert W. Floyd

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program…

— Fred Brooks

There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem…

— Michael Jackson