Robert Holmes wrote:
> Is programming a mathematical formalism? No. I know that when I'm 
> cranking out Python scripts I am not doing any math. Is computer 
> science a mathematical formalism? Yes. When I'm trying to work out 
> whether my algorithm scales as N**2 or N.log.N, I'm doing math.
A compiler is in the position to determine that.   Is it doing math?   
Examples of current work:

http://www.osl.iu.edu/~kyross/pub/wgp2006-paper.pdf
http://llvm.org/devmtg/2008-08/Kremenek_StaticAnalyzer.pdf
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/cse/pa_projects.mspx

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