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- From: wallace@cookie.enet.dec.com ("Richard Wallace, Digital Equipment Corporation 01-Jan-1993 1118")
- Newsgroups: comp.specification.z
- Subject: Specific use questions on Z (and small editorial...)
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 18:18:24 GMT
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- Here I am, sitting on the other side of the "big pudle" where I look forward to
- reading about Z's use in academia and industry and I get my mail file jammed-up
- with lots of non-Z issues showing up. This is, of course, in reference to the
- "Jacket and Tie" vein of articles... I did not say this vein was unimportant, I
- just say this vein is not Z (so turn your "FLAMES" off...).
-
- Please! Let's get back to Z here. There are LOTS of alt."this-n-that" news
- groups to continue this discussion of sexism, patriarchical controled society,
- et.al., ad nausium!
-
- To start this new year in a Z way, I've got some general questions on Z's
- progress in the engineering world.
-
- -- Can an authorative, informed source tell me what the status of Z
- standardization is? The last I heard (July 1991) was that the project was
- called "ZIP," the focal point of the effort was John Nicholls, and that the "Z
- Base Standard" has since been adopted as a British National Standard. Now any
- or all of this may be wrong or out of date, so corrections gladly accepted. I
- would also like to know if the ISO has taken on a Z working group for
- standardization. Does anyone know? If so, who would I communicate with?
-
- -- There was some interest in the ZED interactive and incremental environment
- from Sanjeev Dharap, K.T. Narayana (Penn. State Univ., and ORA Corp.
- respectively). I haven't heard much in the way of comments on its use. I would
- certainly be interested in hearing from anyone who has used this tool suite on
- either a case study or real development (i.e. the "cost-over-correctness"
- environment).
-
- -- Has anyone heard of an effort to automate Carroll Morgans refinement calculus
- (from his book "Programming from Specifications") on Z specifications?
-
- Please post replies to the forum. Anything that is posted directly to me will
- be posted in the forum unless a request is made otherwise.
-
- Thanks to all in advance!
-
- Richard Wallace
- Senior Software Engineer
- Digital Equipment Corporation
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