[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 85 - September 13, 2008

2008-09-17 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:06:21 -0700, Daryoush Mehrtash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a newbie question Does theorem proofs have a use for an application? Take for example the IRC bot example ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Roll_your_own_IRC_bot) listed below. Is there any insight to

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 85 - September 13, 2008

2008-09-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
A more difficult question is: how do I know that the formal specification I've written for my program is the right one? Tools can fairly easily check that your programs conform to a given specification, but they cannot (to my knowledge) check that your specification says exactly what you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News: Issue 85 - September 13, 2008

2008-09-15 Thread Robin Green
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:32:44 -0400 Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A more difficult question is: how do I know that the formal specification I've written for my program is the right one? Tools can fairly easily check that your programs conform to a given specification, but they