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A discipline of programming Edsger W. Dijkstra
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.

People often use this as an example to show that Dijkstra was excessively doctrinaire, and out of touch with the reality of programming, but usually it's because they don't know what his argument was. Use a list: Code: (setq maxvector '( (2761.11 1898.11 0.0) (3761.12 1538.43 0.0) (4761.15 2598.58 0.0) ) ). 'The Pragmatic Programmer' isn't about a particular language or development environment, but it teach programmers how to think about programming as a discipline. For further details, see Dijkstra's book "A Discipline of Programming". Immutable Object Programming (IOP) enforces a discipline on the programmer, much like structured programming enforced a discipline on programmers. I wrote a response, explaining where Dijkstra was coming from, and I am very happy with how it . Electrical perhaps, but what should happen is that the field should strive for a higher bar for engineering discipline using the other long standing engineering fields perhaps as a template. 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. Many complex models attempt to deal with the deadlock problem—with backoff-and-retry protocols, for example—but they require strict discipline by programmers, and some introduce their own problems (e.g., livelock). Dijkstra made a similar argument on page 56 of his book "A Discipline of Programming", together with another argument in support of the != form. Dijkstra introduces a function called wp for "weakest precondition".