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Program development by stepwise refinement

The work

AuthorsNiklaus Wirth
Editors
Typemisc
Year1971
Also known asanon1971program
Citekeywirth1971program

Where it appeared

PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/362575.362577

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Cite it as

@misc{wirth1971program,
  title        = {Program development by stepwise refinement},
  author       = {Niklaus Wirth},
  year         = {1971},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)},
  doi          = {10.1145/362575.362577},
}

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