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“I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.”

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Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

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

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You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

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The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

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The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and…

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Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

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Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly…

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I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

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