From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,121ed47e1e990d4d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.plusnet!news.posted.plusnet.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:39:00 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:38:50 +0000 From: Tim Rowe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: SPARK Proof - Tutorials and Tools References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <_tWdna03KMnJeFrUnZ2dnUVZ8uOdnZ2d@posted.plusnet> X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-m6yjzdnpiF/2wV8gCIwenfV69EWh1MLbMHamcHc4oSXwUOtjHsYyarEkMBEFa8XMvUic7yogG1c9WwX!E6HK1pE6SgQMHT7B3IcoQqYT7lu5yL5XKzS5BC3WWSdHoadkHuD7x7i09/BJXjynNEeoYkNG8PWN!ovvzAYqlrgl/ X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4239 Date: 2009-03-23T19:38:50+00:00 List-Id: JP Thornley wrote: > I have put a couple of tutorials on SPARK proof onto www.sparksure.com; > one for proof of absence of run-time error (ie using the optional proof > annotations) and one for using the Proof Checker. Both tutorials contain > several sections, with worked examples and exercises. A bit of nostalgia for me there! I did the PVL SPADE course about 19 years ago, but hardly used it because my employer at the time turned out not to have a lot of application for it. A lot of SPARK seems oddly familiar :-)