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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems
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> It's always been my contention that writing the specifications which you
> will then prove that a program obeys is exactly as hard as writing the
> program itself.
  Specification: the program will print, on January 30, 2004, the name
of the President of the United States on January 30, 2005.
  That wasn't a hard spec to write - I await your implementation. ;)