The problem with exact specification is that when you have one you don't really need to program. The whole job of a programmer is to disambiguate the specification to make it mathematically exact - so that the machine could execute it. This is in constrast with the design of material things where having a specification you need to put it into a phisical process.

Update: Ok - perhaps that was too trollish. You cannot treat the specification as a programm it is just a definiton of the programm. You still need to find the programm complying to the definition. But it is very close and writing one might be not more difficult than writing the programm - so that it would be quite common that the programm would be the specification.

In reply to Re: Re: (OT) Proving Productivity? by zby
in thread (OT) Proving Productivity? by Ovid

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