Formal methods

1999-05-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > [invariants, pre-conditions, post-conditions] > > As long as programs are written by humans, making human assumptions, > humans will be required to document their assumptions. Such as in modern structured languages. :-) (No, Perl and Python do not qualify! :) Anyway

Formal methods

1999-05-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > | > You cannot test for the abscence of bugs. > | > | You can prove it, though. > > Only if you first prove the operating system and the compiler :-) Nah. These you axiom away. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) d...@newsguy.com d...@freebsd.