Construction Quote by Niklaus Wirth Download Open image “Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.” — Niklaus Wirth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Construction Engineering Program Programming Refinement Sequence Steps
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Refactoring is a lot like solving a Rubik’s cube. There are lots of little steps required to achieve a large goal. Each step enables… — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones. — Terry Winograd Copy Share Image
“Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to… — Arauna Morgan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft]… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which is always… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .… — Giacomo Puccini Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake! — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Over 275,000 people had signed to end the construction of the TMT telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) by week 20 of the protest.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image