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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Categories for SPARK on Rosetta Code (Was: SPARK : third example for
 Roesetta - reviewers welcome)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:19:40 +0200
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Phil Thornley wrote:
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>>> I would also suggest Rosetta Maintainers a new category (we should
>>> invent a good clear name for it, e.g. "static analysis", "DbC",
>>> "provability") to add it to this:
>>>
>>> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Language_Comparison_Table
>>>
>> Seem's a good idea - how about "statically analysable".
>
> It is too vague. In some sense any language is, after all there exist
> static analysis tool for C. SPARK is obviously more than that, but it
> is tricky to formulate the difference.

Maybe we should simply introduce several categories.

 + Provable free of exceptions (run-time errors?)
 + Finite memory use.
 + Free of unreachable code.
 + ...?

I'm not quite sure exactly which categories I would formulate.  Maybe
somebody from Spark-Team at Praxis can help us with some good
suggestions.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
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 the very least he can do is to shut up!"