From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <ggsub@pragmada.x10hosting.com>
Subject: Re: SPARK: What does it prove?
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 16:36:53 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-05-31T16:36:53-07:00 [thread overview]
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On May 28, 6:25 am, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1. V. Donezeau-Gouge, G. Kahn, and B. Lang. On the formal definition of Ada.
> In Semantics-Directed Compiler Generation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
> vol 94, pp 475-489, Springer, Berlin, 1980
>
> 2. D. Bjorner and O.N. Oest. Towards a Formal Description of Ada, Lecture
> Notes in Computer Science, vol 98, Springer, Berlin 1980.
>
> I understand that the efforts above were incomplete and even then only apply
> to Ada 83. I also understand that few full scale languages have a formal
> semantics (do any?). It seems a shame, though, that Ada does not have one
> considering especially the way Ada is used.
I think you're mistaken: these applied only to Ada 80 (MIL-STD-1815).
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-28 13:25 SPARK: What does it prove? Peter C. Chapin
2010-05-28 13:55 ` Rod Chapman
2010-05-28 15:58 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-05-29 14:42 ` Marco
2010-05-29 19:02 ` mockturtle
2010-05-30 1:06 ` BrianG
2010-05-30 13:06 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-05-31 1:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-05-31 1:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-05-31 13:05 ` Phil Thornley
2010-05-31 23:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
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