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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Categories for SPARK on Rosetta Code
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:11:51 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> It might also be worth considering a category ("contract-oriented",
> "design by contract"?) which catches all languages with checked pre- and
> post-conditions.

Any strongly typed language is contract-oriented. (It is interesting to
speculate whether contracts unrelated to types and subtypes may exist.)

As for checked pre- and post-conditions they rather are debug-oriented,
partially, TDD and, to lesser extent, defensive programming.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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