From: Bob Williams <a6a37331@telus.net>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Programming with correctness guarantees
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:38:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070202003833.GA27581@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C250D8.7010700@mcmaster.ca>
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:43:04PM -0500, Jacques Carette wrote:
> Jean-Christophe Filliatre wrote:
> >There's a joke around in the formal methods community: ``would you
> >prefer to get on a plane whose software has been proved correct or
> >has been tested?''
> >
> I heard, from someone working on an automated train system, that
> everyone working on the system was required to be on the inaugural run
> of said train.
>
> I would trust such "people methods" even more than proof and testing!
>
> Jacques
This reminds me of the Roman Empire system: the first person to cross
a new bridge was the engineer who built it!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-02 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-01 5:04 oleg
2007-02-01 8:45 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-02-01 13:00 ` [Caml-list] " Chris King
2007-02-01 20:39 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2007-02-01 13:07 ` [Caml-list] " Joshua D. Guttman
2007-02-01 20:12 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2007-02-01 20:35 ` Robert Fischer
2007-02-01 20:57 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2007-02-02 5:47 ` skaller
2007-02-01 20:43 ` Jacques Carette
2007-02-02 0:38 ` Bob Williams [this message]
2007-02-02 14:09 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2007-02-03 8:09 ` Tom
2007-02-04 15:47 ` Design-by-contract and Type inference? David MENTRE
2007-02-04 16:04 ` [Caml-list] " Benedikt Grundmann
2007-02-04 16:35 ` Kenn Knowles
2007-02-06 9:29 ` Hendrik Tews
2007-02-06 20:45 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-02-06 21:35 ` Alwyn Goodloe
2007-02-06 21:50 ` Jacques Carette
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