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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Silly and stupid post-condition or not ?
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:12:17 +0000
Date: 2012-02-03T08:12:17+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m262focp3y.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jgfjc4$u4b$1@munin.nbi.dk

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> I think that things like SPARC can actually be harmful, as they focus
> attention on the wrong things. There is a lot that can be proved about
> dynamic constructs in Ada (far more than in other most languages), and
> it is unfortunate that instead of taking advantage of this (and making
> widely usable results), most of effort has been on proving the Fortran
> 66 subset of Ada. (I do see signs that this is changing, finally, but
> I think a lot of the work should have been done years ago.)

(SPARK)

Strong agreement here. I don't think I'd have started on any of my own
projects if I'd had to use SPARK. Businesses will, iff they're in an
area where the purchaser requires it (avionics, for example). Does
anywone know what software standards Toyota use? MISRA C?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-03  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-30 23:11 Silly and stupid post‑condition or not ? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-01-31  6:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-01-31 18:48   ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-01-31 22:02     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-01-31  8:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-31  9:35   ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-01-31 10:22     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-31 12:33       ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-01-31 13:52         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-31 15:34           ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-01-31 16:24             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-31 19:44               ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-01  8:41                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-01 10:37                   ` stefan-lucks
2012-02-01 10:51                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-01 13:49                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-01 13:49                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-01 16:37                       ` stefan-lucks
2012-02-02  1:50                         ` Silly and stupid post�?'condition " Randy Brukardt
2012-02-02  1:56                           ` Silly and stupid postâ?'condition or not ? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-03  2:45                             ` Silly and stupid post�?'condition or not ? Randy Brukardt
2012-02-02  8:25                         ` Silly and stupid post‑condition " Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-02  9:01                           ` stefan-lucks
2012-02-02  9:18                           ` stefan-lucks
2012-02-02 10:04                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-31 22:08         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-01-31 17:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-31 22:12   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-01  8:49     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-01  8:36 ` Stephen Leake
2012-02-01 16:30   ` Silly and stupid post-condition " Adam Beneschan
2012-02-02  9:40     ` Stephen Leake
2012-02-02 13:20       ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-02 13:35         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-03  3:13       ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-03  3:33         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-03  8:12         ` Simon Wright [this message]
2012-02-07  2:29           ` BrianG
2012-02-07 10:43             ` Simon Wright
2012-02-08  2:25               ` BrianG
2012-02-07 21:15             ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-03  9:11         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-04  3:27           ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-04 10:15             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-03 12:25         ` Phil Thornley
2012-02-04  9:30         ` Phil Thornley
2012-02-04 12:02         ` Phil Thornley
2012-02-05  6:18           ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-05 10:23             ` Phil Thornley
2012-02-05 10:55               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-05 15:03               ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-05 18:04                 ` Phil Thornley
2012-02-05 21:27                   ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-05 23:09                     ` Phil Thornley
2012-02-07  2:05               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-07  9:38                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-05 11:31             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-05 14:50             ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-07  2:11               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-07  2:34             ` BrianG
2012-02-07  4:38               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-09  3:10               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-04 23:07         ` Stephen Leake
2012-02-05  2:49           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-05  6:29           ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-05 11:40             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-07  1:36               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-05 15:16             ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-06  4:56               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-06 14:39                 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-06 16:12                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-07  1:46               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-07 17:24                 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-03  6:26       ` J-P. Rosen
2012-02-03  9:12         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-03  9:48           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-03 11:09             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-03 11:40               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-03 13:18                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-03 14:14                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-03 14:45                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-04  3:16           ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-04  6:27             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-04 10:47             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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