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A discipline of programming Edsger W. Dijkstra
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.

In the act of creation, you encounter the same tension of raw, boundless possibility against disciplined construction. TDD is a discipline for programmers like double-entry bookkeeping is for accountants or sterile procedure is for surgeons.. - Uncle Bob, The Pragmatics of TDD. - Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Norvig. Programming languages are intolerant of error in grammar or syntax. - Smalltalk 80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg. - A Discipline of Programming by Dijkstra. They are reasonably easy to reproduce and can be debugged using standard methods (code coverage). Still, if the only problems were deterministic access violations, I could live with them (I'm a very disciplined programmer). More than a parellel, programming began to change my way of looking at poetry. Many of us, however, formerly self-studied the discipline of programming and filled in the gaps in our knowledge with most, if not all, of the subjects taught in the University programs. A Discipline of Programming (Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation) By E. Dijkstra made a similar argument on page 56 of his book "A Discipline of Programming", together with another argument in support of the != form. If you are feeling scholarly, Edsger W. The electronic version of "Communicating Sequential Processes" is now freely available for download. Use a list: Code: (setq maxvector '( (2761.11 1898.11 0.0) (3761.12 1538.43 0.0) (4761.15 2598.58 0.0) ) ). As long as I have been programming (about 35 years now) a common, recurring, and never ending discussion though is how to categorize programming as a discipline. Dijkstra's 1976 book, A Discipline of Programming, explains a design process which is very clearly the origin of both TDD and Design by Contract. A kind soul has scanned in the pages from "A Discipline of Programming" and made them freely available to everyone. Dijkstra * Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc. It's important to remember that all programming languages require a discipline that most of us don't have.