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From: nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Help wanted: References on algebraic specification
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Date: 14 Jul 89 16:15:32 GMT
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       Parnas' papers from the 1970s are relevant, and amusing at times.
Parnas goes down in programming language history for claiming that variable
names should be meaningless, so that readers of the specification are forced
to follow the logic.

					John Nagle