A Discipline of Programming

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Автор: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Название: A Discipline of Programming

Издательство: Prentice Hall

Год: 1976

Страниц: 232

ISBN: 013215871X

Формат: PDF

Размер: 16,4 Мб

Язык: английский

Качество: хорошее

He begins by considering the questions, "What is an algorithm?" and "What are we doing when we program?" These questions lead him to an interesting digression on the semantics of programming languages, which, in turn, leads to essays on programming language constructs, scoping of variables, and array references. Dijkstra then delivers, as promised, a collection of beautiful algorithms. These algorithms are far ranging, covering mathematical computations, various kinds of sorting problems, pattern matching, convex hulls, and more. Because this is an old book, the algorithms presented are sometimes no longer the best available. However, the value in reading A Discipline of Programming is to absorb and understand the way that Dijkstra thought about these problems, which, in some ways, is more valuable than a thousand algorithms.

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