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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Ken Rose <kenrose@n...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Unsoundness is essential |
skaller wrote: > It seems a consequence of this manifesto is that the asserting > of the assertions, if not their proofs, need to be encoded > into the program in an effort to reduce the size of the output > list. > > A difficulty here is saying the assertions in a comprehensible > way which is well coupled to the original code. As you said > previously, this probably requires an interactive system. > > I think that in an industrial system, the assertions are going to have to travel with the code. I can't imagine that a system that needs a particular, highly trained programmer (the one who wrote the thing) to cajole the compiler into generating code will ever be satisfactory to any business that writes code. - ken