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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Checking Ada against formal specifications.
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:26:20 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 27, 1:19=A0pm, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Are there any free tools for checking Ada against external
> formal specifications (perhaps written in Z or some other
> language) or annotations?
>
> I see there used to be one called Anna but the site hosted
> on stanford.edu seems to have vanished.
>
> I'm not counting SPARK as a free tool (regardless, the SPARK
> binaries crash on my copy of debian and don't work at all on
> my actual development platform (FreeBSD)).

I haven't heard of such a thing for ages...late 80's.

Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland had a tool that took Z,
converted that to SML/NJ and then on to Ada83 - don't think it was
ever release into the open though...

I'd be interested in anything that you uncover!

Cheers
-- Martin