Re: [fpc-pascal] Competitive advantage in showing proof of correctness

2007-08-14 Thread James Smith
Of course it will be considered. I don't think we are there yet though. First, Tom needs to say he is ready for merging though. Second we need to do some peer review on the code. However, I don't think anyone in the team is again his work. Excellent, thanks Daniƫl. James

Re: [fpc-pascal] Competitive advantage in showing proof of correctness

2007-08-14 Thread James Smith
Let's first get people of type unsafe languages. Type safety with range checking etc. are a big improvement over type unsafe languages. Yes, Pascal is already the language to use if you are interrested in software correctness. And perhaps Tom Verhoeff's work will lead to contract programming. B

Re: [fpc-pascal] Competitive advantage in showing proof of correctness

2007-08-14 Thread James Smith
There's a company already doing that: http://www.praxis-his.com/sparkada/intro.asp I've read their book. Cool stuff. James ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

RE: Re: [fpc-pascal] Need three things

2007-08-14 Thread James Smith
Real world need for DbC, or some way to show due diligence: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/08/10/house-of-lords-inquiry-personal-internet-security/ Quote: "The third area, and this is where the committee has been most far-sighted, and therefore in the short term this may well be their