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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:40:04 +0200
Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander
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P� Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:51:55 +0200, skrev jhc0033@gmail.com  
<jhc0033@gmail.com>:

> On Jul 24, 12:39 am, "John Thingstad" <jpth...@online.no> wrote:
>
>> Mathematically verify it with ACL2! Way better than silly type checking.
>> Check that theprogram does what the spec sais.
>> (Which still only proves that it does what you say, not what you men.))
>>
>
> Typo-prone people probably shouldn't use dynamically-typed languages!
> BTW us, static folk, got Coq, which is probably better than ACL2: the
> name "ACL2" sounds like they couldn't even get it right in the first
> try.

Well the first post got tossed away by accident and the second was written  
in a hurry in aggravation.
Anyhow you are wrong. Since variables must be declared before they are  
used and also assigned a object typo's are get caught at compile time just  
like in a statically compiled language.

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John Thingstad