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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Formal Specification and Verification (was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 5)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 19:48:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1808201939560.3596@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180818155733.523a3d2d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>

Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> This is a pretty long posting. If you don't care to read it, the TL;DR
> is that formal specification and verification is now a real
> discipline, which it wasn't in the old days, and there are systems to
> do it in, and it's well understood.

Another example, of a somewhat different flavour, is
http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/amazon.html

The difference being that I gather Amazon are using TLA+ more as a
modelling language for distributed systems and not strictly for verifying
implementations.

PS. If there is a historical Lamport / Unix connection, I'm not aware of
one...

Tony.
-- 
f.anthony.n.finch  <dot@dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-20 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-06 13:06 [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 5 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-06 15:52 ` Bakul Shah
2018-08-06 16:30   ` Hellwig Geisse
2018-08-06 21:19     ` Steve Johnson
2018-08-18 19:57       ` [TUHS] Formal Specification and Verification (was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 5) Perry E. Metzger
2018-08-19 23:47         ` George Michaelson
2018-08-20  0:57           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-08-20  3:29             ` [TUHS] Formal Specification and Verification Warren Toomey
2018-08-20 18:48         ` Tony Finch [this message]

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