Re: Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-21 Thread Jon Mountjoy
Greg Michaelson writes: > No one has yet confessed to using Haskell for such degenerate purposes... See: Howard S. Goodman "Animating Z specifications in Haskell using a monad" , Technical report CSR-93-10, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, B15 2TT, Au

Re: Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-21 Thread Andrew Moran
Andrew Butterfield writes: > At 15:41 +0100 20/10/97, Greg Michaelson wrote: (rearranged by me for > dramatic effect :-) >> But you should look at the Jones and Hayes paper from Software Engineering >> Journal called something like "Executions are not (always) executable" I think Greg means "_S

Re: Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-21 Thread Pieter Hartel
> No one has yet confessed to using Haskell for such degenerate purposes... I'll confess: LATOS -- A Lightweight Animation Tool for Operational Semantics Latos is a tool to aid in the development of operational semantics. The tool supports publication quality rendering using LaTeX, execu

Re: Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-21 Thread Greg Michaelson
Having been roundly savaged in these columns for suggesting that a language may be implemented by interpreting its semantics, and that denotational semantics is inherantly operational and hence executable, I thought it important to re-establish my credibility with a convincing display of orthodoxy

Re: Formal design spec into Haskell or Miranda

1997-10-21 Thread Andrew Butterfield
At 15:41 +0100 20/10/97, Greg Michaelson wrote: (rearranged by me for dramatic effect :-) >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 commun