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Robert Floyd

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American actor

Person · Open Library

Works
9

Top works

  • On a Distant Shore
  • Great Chalfield Manor, Wiltshire
  • My Song of the Sea
  • Review for the CLEP* general mathematics examination
  • Waiting for the Harvest Moon

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
England
Active from
1965
Active to
2014
acid rockalbum rockart rockblues rockclassic rockexperimental rock

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2
Total plays
7

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Quotes

  • The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs [...] and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.
  • A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.
  • It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability, [...] This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop.
  • If the advancement of the general art of programming requires the continuing invention and elaboration of paradigms, advancement of the art of the individual programmer requires that he expand his repertory of paradigms.
  • Although my own previous enthusiasm has been for syntactically rich languages like the Algol family, I now see clearly and concretely the force of Minsky's 1970 Turing lecture, in which he argued that Lisp's uniformity of structure and power of self reference gave the programmer capabilities whose content was well worth the sacrifice of visual form.
  • If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

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date of birth
1967-05-06
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