The assignment axiom and programming language design

  • Authors:
  • George T. Ligler

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at San Antonlo, San Antonio, Texas

  • Venue:
  • ACM '76 Proceedings of the 1976 annual conference
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

One way to approach software reliability is to design programming languages that satisfy criteria which ensure that undesirable semantic effects cannot occur. The effect of using the assignment rule of Hoare as such a criterion on the design of procedure-oriented, block-structured programming languages is investigated; after details of the Hoare formalism are discussed, language design guidelines derived from formal studies are informally presented and justified.