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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:30:42 +0100
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On 10.02.11 16:38, Hyman Rosen wrote:
>  Why do you believe that it is
> a severe problem in C that I cannot specify in the language that
> a parameter is positive, but it is not a severe problem in Ada
> that you cannot tell me for which values my program will work?

SPARK is made to tell us the values for which a subprogram will
work.