Editing Hoare logic (section)

{{short description|Rules to verify computer program correctness}}
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'''Hoare logic''' (also known as '''Floyd&ndash;Hoare logic''' or '''Hoare rules''') is a [[formal system]] with a set of logical rules for reasoning rigorously about the [[correctness of computer programs]]. It was proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and [[mathematical logic|logician]] [[Tony Hoare]], and subsequently refined by Hoare and other researchers.{{sfn|Hoare|1969}} The original ideas were seeded by the work of [[Robert W. Floyd]], who had published a similar system{{sfn|Floyd|1967}} for [[flowchart]]s.