David Crocker wrote:
Crispin Cowan wrote:
The above is the art of programming language design. Programs written in
high-level languages are *precisely* specifications that result in the
system generating the program, thereby saving time and eliminating
coding error. You will find exactly those argu
At 3:55 PM -0700 7/10/04, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> However, I think I do see a gap between these extremes. You could have
> a formal specification that can be mechanically transformed into a
> *checker* program that verifies that a solution is correct, but cannot
> actually generate a correct soluti
En un mensaje anterior, Blue Boar escribió:
> Fernando Schapachnik wrote:
> >I smell a discusion going nowhere. What is the point of teaching a
> >languague?
> >Teach them to program in a paradigm (better, in all of them, and give them
> >the
> >tools to make educated choices about which is bette
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> At 3:55 PM -0700 7/10/04, Crispin Cowan wrote:
>
> > However, I think I
der Mouse is correct. I recall a product from the early 80s called "The
Last One". There was an advertisement for the product on Prof Doug Comer's
door when I was a grad student at Purdue... the claim was that this product
made designing applications so simple that you'd never have to program
aga
So in all the discussions, I think I'm seeing several main themes:
-Some holes are design or logic errors (possible in any language)
-Some holes are failures to code safely in a given language (language
specific; possibly addressable by switching to a "safer" language)
-Some holes are harder to im
> To get REALLY back to the point, I'd like to comment on Fabien's comment
> that "In my opinion, it's the most important things for a languages,
> something to easily validate user input or to encrypt password are a must
> have." Fabien is right, but increasingly that's only half the problem.
> T
