Xref: utzoo comp.ai:5375 comp.arch:13009 comp.compilers:749 comp.databases:4547 comp.edu:2868 comp.object:675 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!att!ima!esegue!compilers-sender From: steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.arch,comp.compilers,comp.databases,comp.edu,comp.object Subject: Reasons why you don't prove your programs are correct Message-ID: <7578@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 5 Jan 90 18:55:11 GMT Sender: compilers-sender@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Reply-To: steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson) Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC Lines: 14 Approved: compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us I'm trying to discover the real reason why people do not prove their programs are correct. I would like to collect those reasons --- even those snappy one liners that we all use as excuses. Please forward your comments ( short flames ok) to me by E-mail. I'll post the replies if there is sufficient interest. Thanks. -- Steve (really "D. E.") Stevenson steve@hubcap.clemson.edu Department of Computer Science, (803)656-5880.mabell Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 -- Send compilers articles to compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us {spdcc | ima | lotus}!esegue. Meta-mail to compilers-request@esegue. Please send responses to the author of the message, not the poster.