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

That's the person who wants to learn programming as a discipline, and to get more out of his computer, or perhaps because he likes a challenge (but not the hobbyist's kind). The reaction of these teams suggested their levels of discipline with various practices. Testing an application, particularly if it is user facing as most of my 3 decades of work has been, is a discipline all by itself. Instead, game design has emerged as its own distinct discipline. I think there are a large number of people in the JAP category who are there because programming is considered a discipline unto itself, with its own career path. It starts with the premise, from Guido's prior work on ABC, to make a simple but easy to understand language. Dijkstra : I liked Test-Driven Development a lot more when it was called Correctness by Construction. And experienced individual who could create great solutions; however inconsistent and unpredictable. A disciplined and knowledgeable programmer, who is strong in implementation, but lacks creativity and drive. Thus, orthogonality is an important mathematical discipline intrinsic to the specification of recursive functions that is naturally applied in functional programming and specification. Today, I presented a position paper entitled “Programming Can Deepen Understanding Across Disciplines”. If you take a look at his “A Discipline of Programming” (which is admittedly not an easy sit for the general reader) you'll understand he's talking about “correct-by-construction” programming. But it by no means suggests that in order to be a great designer you must also be a great programmer. Likewise programming is nothing like testing either. Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programming, * Prentice-Hall, 3. Python has an identity crisis sometimes. The technology itself would be useless if human creativity is not included in its application. 'The Pragmatic Programmer' isn't about a particular language or development environment, but it teach programmers how to think about programming as a discipline. A Discipline of Programming, E.W. Abstract for Haskellers: This is a long, involved defense of purity, both in terms of what it affords us in terms of power and in how it enforces “good” programming practices.