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- From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
- Subject: Re: Programming by Description of Output...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.045009.2471@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- References: <BEVAN.92Dec31202001@panda.cs.man.ac.uk> <1993Jan1.043329.27160@netcom.com> <BEVAN.93Jan1134444@panda.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:50:09 GMT
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- In article <BEVAN.93Jan1134444@panda.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan1.043329.27160@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
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- > Formal specs that you can't run are tough to work with.
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- >I heartily agree, though there are those who feel that if a spec. is
- >executable it probably isn't a good spec.
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- A denotational semantics of a programming language is a formal spec of
- the language itself; strangely (or perhaps not so strangely), such specs
- *are* executable in Standard ML.
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- Admittedly, this is somewhat of a special case.
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- -- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
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