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.
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is … - Tony Hoare
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is …
- Tony Hoare
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors. - Tony Hoare
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out. - Tony Hoare
Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.
Some problems are better evaded than solved. - Tony Hoare
Some problems are better evaded than solved.
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. - Tony Hoare
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction ari… - Tony Hoare
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction ari…
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. - Tony Hoare
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.
The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those… - Tony Hoare
The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those…
I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. - Tony Hoare
I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.
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