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Floyd: assigning meanings to programs

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Programming languages and compilers · FORMALIZATION

Reference score250,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Associated assertions with flowchart points and gave rules for checking program partial correctness and termination.

Scientific scope

The record is Floyd's sole-author 1967 proceedings chapter. It does not absorb Hoare's later axiomatic system, denotational semantics or every subsequent program-verification method.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Floyd's sole-author 1967 proceedings chapter. It does not absorb Hoare's later axiomatic system, denotational semantics or every subsequent program-verification method.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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