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Robert Floyd was an American computer scientist who made important contributions to the theory of parsing and early compilers, to the semantics of programming languages and to the development of methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software.
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Floyd R (1963) Syntactic analysis and operator precedence. J Assoc Comput Mach 10:316–333
Floyd R (1964) The syntax of programming languages. A survey. IEEE Trans Electron Comput EC-13:346–353
Floyd R (1967) Assigning meanings to programs. In: Proceedings of symposia in applied mathematics, vol 19. American Mathematical Society, Providence, pp 19–32
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O’Regan, G. (2013). Robert Floyd. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_26
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