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Predicate transformer semantics

Predicate transformer semantics were introduced by Edsger Dijkstra in his seminal paper "Guarded commands, nondeterminacy and formal derivation of programs". They define the semantics of an imperative programming paradigm by assigning to each statement in this language a corresponding predicate transformer: a total function between two predicates on the…

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Predicate transformer semantics → B-Method, Back, Computations, Dijkstra, ESC/Java2, Frama-C, Hoare, In, It, Rather, SMT, Some, This, Unlike, Wirth
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