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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> Creating a model that both formal and understandable by a run-of-the-mill 
> language lawyer and finding volunteers to create the model seems unlikely 
> (to say the least).

Well I thought Ada was originally sponsored by big-money defense
agencies, but maybe that was only Ada-83.  Anyway, I do think there was
some formalization work for Scheme in the 1980s and ML in the 1990s.  I
can understand how it could be much harder for Ada, since Scheme and ML
operate under some convenient illusions like having infinite memory,
which Ada cannot.