Niklaus Wirth Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Niklaus Wirth quotes and sayings page 2 (scientist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 21 we have.
“But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.”
“Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.”
“Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.”
“My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.”
“Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.”
“Programming is usually taught by examples.”
“Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.”
“Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.”
“Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.”
“I have never designed a language for its own sake.”
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