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A discipline of programming by Edsger W. Dijkstra

A discipline of programming Edsger W. Dijkstra ebook
Format: djvu
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.
ISBN: 013215871X, 9780132158718
Page: 232

Stay the course—be disciplined. A discipline like Extreme Programming requires a radical upgrade in both technical and social skills, especially for programmers. Thus the discipline of programming has become blurred. More than a parellel, programming began to change my way of looking at poetry. In the act of creation, you encounter the same tension of raw, boundless possibility against disciplined construction. Still, if the only problems were deterministic access violations, I could live with them (I'm a very disciplined programmer). This can be overcome with at least a little thought to organization and putting in good comments, but that takes a discipline that many programmers fail to appreciate. It requires become transparent, accountable, and responsible. Perhaps a step back in In Problem Seeking , the classic quote and discipline separation was stated as "Programming is problem seeing, design is problem solving. They are reasonably easy to reproduce and can be debugged using standard methods (code coverage).