[Edu-sig] RE: [Tutor] Off topic musings

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> > One recurring theme in these "State of the Practice" papers 
> > was the lack of a fundamental theoretical basis for computing. 
> > i.e. there's nothing comparable to the laws of physics in 
> > software engineering.
> 
> David Gries has written a book called "The Science of 
> Programming" which states a framework for writing mathematicaly correct 
> programs.  

Yes, there are many books and papers on programming correctness but 
few on the nature of information. Specifically I am intereted in 
any work on layering of information structures. Looking at how 
information itself is structured and operated upon. This is different 
to programming which is only one very narrow subset ofg information 
processing.

Alan g.