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Efficient Production of Large Programs

Transcripts of round-tables at a conference; it’s mostly known as the source of Tony Hoare’s Law, “inside every large program there is a small program trying to get out.”

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“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”
Tony Hoare

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• Title: Efficient Production of Large Programs

• Author: Wlad Turski (editor), Tony Hoare (contributer)

• Type: Book

• Publisher: Computation Centre of the Polish Aacdemy of Science

• Publication time: August 10, 1970

• Publication place: Poland

• Link: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/publications/publication8100-abstract.html

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