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DIJKSTRA'S GUARDED COMMAND LANGUAGE

Specialty Definition: DIJKSTRA'S GUARDED COMMAND LANGUAGE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Dijkstra's guarded command language A language invented by Edsger Dijkstra ca. 1974. It introduced the concept of guards and committed choice nondeterminism (don't care nondeterminism). Described and used in ["A Discipline of Programming", E. Dijkstra, P-H 1976]. (1994-12-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DIJKSTRA'S GUARDED COMMAND LANGUAGE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 4A 4B 53 54 52 41 27 53      47 55 41 52 44 45 44      43 4F 4D 4D 41 4E 44      4C 41 4E 47 55 41 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01001010 01001011 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000111 01010101 01000001 01010010 01000100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01001101 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#74 &#75 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#71 &#85 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#77 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#85 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 004A 004B 0053 0054 0052 0041 0027 0053      0047 0055 0041 0052 0044 0045 0044      0043 004F 004D 004D 0041 004E 0044      004C 0041 004E 0047 0055 0041 0047 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384344455354523595324155355238393823749474735483824635484155354139

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