Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Christopher Strachey

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Christopher S. Strachey was a British computer scientist. He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design and computer time-sharing. He has also been credited as possibly being the first developer of a video game. He was a member of the Strachey family, prominent in government, arts, administration, and academia.

British - Scientist | November 16, 1916 - May 18, 1975

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It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.

Christopher Strachey

It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.

Christopher Strachey

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.

Christopher Strachey

You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.

Christopher Strachey