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From: Martin Berger <martinb@dcs.qmul.ac.uk>
To: Jean-Christophe Filliatre <Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Formal Methods
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:04:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <415D1D8C.2020802@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16733.2280.350656.716714@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

> The  real   difficulties  in  proving  functional   code  appear  when
> side-effects are mixed with  powerful features such as polymorphism or
> higher-order.   Then it becomes  very hard  to reason  about programs.
> Actually,  we  don't  even  have  a specification  language  to  write
> programs  properties to  be  proved.  There is  a  nice challenge  for
> research here.

this has changed recently. please consider

   http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~yoshida/paper/PA.ps
   http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~yoshida/paper/polyrec.ps
   http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~yoshida/paper/icfp04.ps

more along those lines is in the pipeline.

martin

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-30 15:51 David McClain
2004-09-30 17:35 ` Jacques Carette
2004-09-30 18:42   ` Jon Harrop
2004-10-01  8:24   ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-10-01  9:01     ` Achim Blumensath
2004-09-30 17:54 ` [Off-topic] " David MENTRE
2004-10-01  7:36 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-10-01  7:51   ` Tom
2004-10-01  9:04   ` Martin Berger [this message]
2004-10-01  8:30 ` Hendrik Tews
2004-10-01  9:18   ` Martin Berger
2004-09-30 17:19 Harrison, John R

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