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{{Short description|1988 paper by E. W. Dijkstra}} ...Science'''" is a 1988 [[scholarly article]] by [[Edsger W. Dijkstra|E. W. Dijkstra]]<ref>{{Cite EWD|1036|On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science}} ...

...es are sufficiently similar to the one presented that proving them follows by essentially the same logic.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Gary|last1=Chartrand|aut ...by interchanging ''x'' and ''y'': ''y'' ≤ ''x'' ⇒ ''P''(''y'',''x''), and by symmetry of ''P'', this implies ''P''(''x'',''y''), thereby showing that '' ...

...k | author-link=Jim Woodcock | title=Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare | date=October 2021 | pages=285–316 | doi=10.1145/3477355.347 ...ariable names denoting the attributes of the paradigm that can be observed by an external entity; ...

...:Thomas Carlyle by Robert Scott Tait 31 July 1854.jpg|thumb|Thomas Carlyle by Robert Scott Tait, 31 July 1854]] ...esolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the ''dismal science''."<ref>Carlyle, Thomas (1849). [http ...

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...on models to assist large Dutch engineering projects, such as the [[Delta Works]]. During this early period, the Mathematics Institute also helped with des ...therlands, was the director of the institute for almost 20 years. [[Edsger Dijkstra]] did most of his early influential work on algorithms and formal methods a ...

...ich was one of the original foundations of graph theory when it was solved by [[Leonhard Euler]] in 1736.<ref>Euler, Leonhard (1736). "Solutio problemati ...h is not of relevance here), and the analysis of transport networks. Early works, such as Tinkler (1977), focused mainly on simple schematic networks, likel ...

...tion where strict inequality (<) should have been used, or vice versa. Off-by-one errors also stem from confusion over [[zero-based numbering]]. ...here? An intuitive answer may be {{nowrap|''n'' − ''m''}}, but that is off by one, exhibiting a [[#Fencepost error|fencepost error]]; the correct answer ...

...ce, a ''zeroth derivative'' of a function is the function itself, obtained by [[derivative|differentiating]] zero times. Such usage corresponds to naming ...n-time]] [[indirection lookup]]s, so the indirection optimization provided by these arrays was done at compile time.<ref name="mikehoye"/> The optimizati ...

{{short description|In computing, restricting data to be accessible by one thread at a time}} ...n of a problem in concurrent programming control",<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dijkstra|first=E. W.|title=Solution of a problem in concurrent programming control|j ...

...computing]].<ref>{{cite book| title=Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare | date=2021 | editor-first1=Cliff B. | editor-last1=Jones | e ...ctions of concurrent processes, and along with [[Edsger W. Dijkstra|Edsger Dijkstra]], formulated the [[dining philosophers problem]].<ref name="ACM">{{ACM Por ...

Conditionals are typically implemented by selectively executing instructions. Although [[dynamic dispatch]] is not us ...tional ''expression'', having intrinsic value (e.g., it may be substituted by either of the values <code>True</code> or <code>False</code>) but having no ...

...eously for different tasks doing different things. Another benefit is that by providing [[Reentrancy (computing)|reentrancy]], [[Recursion (computer scie ...nient to allocate space for this use by simply moving the top of the stack by enough to provide the space. This is very fast when compared to [[dynamic m ...

...the disambiguation page [[Von Neumann]] — you will see that every article works that way. --> ...raft of a Report on the EDVAC]]'',<ref name ="FirstDraftReport" /> written by [[John von Neumann]] in 1945, describing designs discussed with [[John Mauc ...

...e ACM'' (Volume 9, number 8) in "President's Letter to the ACM Membership" by Anthony A. Oettinger.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bertrandmeyer.com/wp-cont ...}}</ref> It is also associated with the title of a NATO conference in 1968 by Professor [[Friedrich L. Bauer]].<ref>{{cite web ...

[[File:TUe by night.png|thumb|300px|left|TU by night]] ...s founded as the ''Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven'' (THE) on 23 June 1956 by the Dutch government. It was the second institute of its kind in the [[Neth ...

...ow is closely related to code structure. Control flows along lines defined by structure and the execution rules of a language. This general concept of st ...ifier]], usually appearing at the start of a line and immediately followed by a colon. For example, the following C code defines a label {{code |Success} ...

In architecture, Alexander's work is used by a number of different contemporary architectural communities of practice, i ...ed to Margaret Moore Alexander, and he had two daughters, Sophie and Lily, by his former wife Pamela Patrick. Alexander held both British and American ci ...

...numbers and how well they can be [[Diophantine approximation|approximated by rational numbers]], and investigated the properties of [[Weierstrass functi ...Charles University with a dissertation on [[Bessel function]]s supervised by Petr,<ref name="ped"/> then returned to Charles University as Petr's assist ...