My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are a…

- Robert W. Floyd

The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined indep…

- Robert W. Floyd

It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact of…

- Robert W. Floyd

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 c…

- Robert W. Floyd

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

- Robert W. Floyd