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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Subject: Re: some trivial questions?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 02:19:09 +0200
Date: 2017-11-23T02:19:09+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ov5463$1adm$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ov53vd$ef3$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk

Randy Brukardt wrote:

> "Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:87mv3fdsi3.fsf@nightsong.com...
>> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>>> Of course, a true proof is hard to do when the rules are primarily
>>> modeled
>>> in English as opposed to some formal system.
>>
>> I'm surprised Ada doesn't have a formal semantics.  Maybe that's
>> something that should be fixed?
> 
> That was attempted during Ada 9x, but the problem was that there was no

Attempted in 90th?!

Which formal proof assistant was used?

> way for normal humans to see if the formal semantics in fact properly
> modeled the language. Only the authors actually understood the formal
> model.
> 
> Creating a model that both formal and understandable by a run-of-the-mill
> language lawyer and finding volunteers to create the model seems unlikely
> (to say the least).
> 
>                                             Randy.
-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-23  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-01 18:44 some trivial questions? tclwarrior
2017-11-01 19:55 ` Shark8
2017-11-01 20:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-01 21:30 ` Luke A. Guest
2017-11-06 22:43   ` Robert A Duff
2017-11-01 21:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-11-02  1:19 ` tclwarrior
2017-11-02  3:04   ` Luke A. Guest
2017-11-02  4:19   ` gautier_niouzes
2017-11-06 22:52     ` Robert A Duff
2017-11-17  0:45       ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-02  8:27   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-02 13:21     ` Simon Wright
2017-11-02 13:34       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-06 22:58         ` Robert A Duff
2017-11-07 11:50           ` Simon Wright
2017-11-17  0:51     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-17  8:32       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-18  1:14         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-18  9:19           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-20  5:40             ` J-P. Rosen
2017-11-20  8:22               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-20 22:03             ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-21 10:26               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-22  0:56                 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-22  1:14                   ` Paul Rubin
2017-11-23  0:15                     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-23  0:19                       ` Victor Porton [this message]
2017-11-23  1:09                       ` Paul Rubin
2017-11-28  0:24                         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-22  8:42                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-23  0:19                     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-23  1:11                       ` Paul Rubin
2017-11-23  8:37                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-28  0:19                         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-23  8:42                       ` G. B.
2017-11-23 19:57                   ` Blady
2017-11-23 21:30                     ` J-P. Rosen
2017-11-23 23:24                       ` Shark8
2017-11-23 22:13                     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-11-28  0:34                     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-02  8:39   ` Stefan.Lucks
2017-11-02 10:29   ` Simon Wright
2017-11-02 10:37     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-02 16:54   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-11-02 17:17     ` Simon Wright
2017-11-02  3:53 ` gautier_niouzes
2017-11-02 11:15 ` joakimds
2017-11-06 19:33 ` G. B.
2017-11-06 20:53 ` Pascal Obry
2017-11-06 21:07   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-06 21:14     ` Pascal Obry
2017-11-06 21:21       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-17  0:57       ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-17  8:40         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-17  9:12           ` Simon Wright
2017-11-18  1:27           ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-18  2:29             ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-11-18  9:32             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-06 21:16   ` Simon Wright
2017-11-06 21:43     ` Pascal Obry
2017-11-17  0:59       ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-06 22:37 ` Robert A Duff
2017-11-07  2:25   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-11-07  8:34   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-08 22:49     ` Robert A Duff
2017-11-09  8:49       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-09 15:36         ` AdaMagica
2017-11-09 16:58           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-09 18:10             ` AdaMagica
2017-11-09 20:05               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-09 21:11                 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-09 21:38                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-09 22:52                     ` AdaMagica
2017-11-10  8:18                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-10 18:21                 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-11-10 19:34                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-11 11:32                     ` AdaMagica
2017-11-11 12:17                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-11 15:38                         ` AdaMagica
2017-11-11 21:36                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-12  5:21                       ` J-P. Rosen
2017-11-14 16:49                       ` Robert Eachus
2017-11-14 17:34                         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-11-17  1:11                     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-17  8:42                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-10 20:30                   ` G. B.
2017-11-17  1:08                 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-09 22:43               ` Robert A Duff
2017-11-09 22:56                 ` AdaMagica
2017-11-10  8:22                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-10 15:47                   ` Robert A Duff
2017-11-10 15:54                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-14 15:58                       ` Robert Eachus
2017-11-14 16:22                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-17  1:16                     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-17  1:06             ` Randy Brukardt
2017-11-09 18:08         ` Simon Wright
2017-11-09 20:07           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-11-07 17:41   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-11-08 10:20     ` Brian Drummond
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