Re: Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-20 Thread P Mukherjee
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Greg Michaelson wrote: ... > dissertation. But you should look at the Jones and Hayes paper from Software > Engineering Journal called something like "Executions are not (always) > executable" to discover why persons of good taste in the formal community > will no longer speak

Re: Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-20 Thread P Mukherjee
Martin, > > Does anyone know of any translation work from a fomal > design specification language (such as Z) to Haskell or > Miranda? > Thanks > Martin > --- > HYDE M.D > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have done some work on automatic translation o

Re: Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-20 Thread Greg Michaelson
Surely the very suggestion that formal specs can be translated into anything is heresy, unless you're working with an executable subset. Oh, you can always call it constructive refinement: there's a new project looking at this at the University of Essex. There was also some work on translating VDM

Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-20 Thread HYDE M.D
Does anyone know of any translation work from a fomal design specification language (such as Z) to Haskell or Miranda? Thanks Martin --- HYDE M.D [EMAIL PROTECTED]