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Also has Tony Hoare's "The Emperor's Old Clothes" on page 414. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358549.358561 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358549.35856
by pieterr 3y ago
Also has Tony Hoare's "The Emperor's Old Clothes" on page 414.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358549.358561 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358549.358561
- deltasepsilon 3y agoThanks so much for sharing this. I'd never read it before. It's sad that his advice predates my existence yet here we are still unwilling to listen. > The design of a program and the design of its specification must be undertaken in parallel [...] I wish I had followed this advice in 1963; I wish we all would follow it today. sigh