On the role of scientific thought" (EWD447)

Dijkstra, E. W. (1974). On the role of scientific thought" (EWD447). Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1974

Link

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD447.html

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art_aesthetics

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• Form and Content
  • Splitting the axis localizes the defect.

    This sourceIntroduces "separation of concerns" — studying one aspect of a subject in isolation. SUPPORTS the clarity, complexity-management, and portable-diagnostic claims that factoring an artifact lets each axis be localized, varied, and reused independently (475, 476, 480).

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