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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a00006d3c4735d70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-12 04:51:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!62.173.119.178!not-for-mail From: Peter Amey Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:51:55 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.173.119.178 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1073911915 11788064 62.173.119.178 ([69815]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4351 Date: 2004-01-12T12:51:55+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>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. ;) A Diebold-like voting machine perhaps :-)