On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:28 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > What is needed is an automated methodology to derive algorithmic > solutions to formally specified features. Since there are only a handful > of tools in a programmer's toolbox, that objective doesn't seem at all > impossible. The big question is, is it possible to specify features > formally without actually coding them?
If you're specifying them formally, you're probably coding them. Any form sufficiently well-defined for a program to analyze is basically code already. It might be a goal-based syntax rather than action-based (eg contrast SQL's way of saying "these are the rows I want" with classic imperative programming), but it's still code, it's still software, it's still not the Singularity. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
