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- Newsgroups: comp.specification
- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!dancer!haim
- From: haim@dancer.uucp (24103-kilov)
- Subject: Re: parallel programming and specification tools
- Reply-To: haim@dancer.UUCP ()
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 15:09:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.150936.16184@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1992Aug7.121850.26706@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Aug11.065833.3465@weigele.de>
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- "Besides, the crucial thing about Formal Methods is "What tool support is
- available" - and be suspicious of "tools" as well!! There are few real good
- ones."
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- Absolutely not! A formal method is used to understand what you are talking
- about, i.e., to specify the "system" better. If, as a result of its use,
- the specification has less errors and/or is more complete and understandable,
- then it does not really matter whether there exists a miraculous tool that,
- with a push of a button, will create code out of a specification.
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- -Haim Kilov
- haim@dancer.cc.bellcore.com
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