Robert Floyd: Designation

Robert Floyd was American computer scientist. Explore interesting quotes on designation.

Robert Floyd: 18 quotes0 likes

“If I ask another professor what he teaches in the introductory programming course, whether he answers proudly "Pascal" or diffidently "FORTRAN," I know that he is teaching a grammar, a set of semantic rules, and some finished algorithms, leaving the students to discover, on their own, some process of design.”

The Paradigms of Programming (1979)

“To the designer of programming languages, I say: unless you can support the paradigms I use when I program, or at least support my extending your language into one that does support my programming methods, I don't need your shiny new languages. […] To persuade me of the merit of your language, you must show me how to construct programs in it.”

The Paradigms of Programming (1979)

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

The Paradigms of Programming (1979)