Programming with Specifications by David Luckham
Topics - what this book is about, - its intended audience, - what the reader ought to know, - how the book is organized, - acknowledgements. Specifications express information about a program that is not normally part of the program, and often cannot be expressed in a programming lan- guage. In the past, the word specification has sometimes been used to refer to somewhat vague documentation written in English. But today it indicates a precise statement, written in a machine processable language, about the purpose and behavior of a program. Specifications are written in languages that are just as precise as programming languages, but have additional capabilities that increase their power of expression. The termi- nology formal specification is sometimes used to emphasize the modern meaning. For us, all specifications are formal. The use of specifications as an integral part of a program opens up a whole new area of programming - progmmming with specifications. This book describes how to use specifications in the process of building programs, debugging them, and interfacing them with other programs. It deals with a new trend in programming - the evolution of specification languages from the current generation of programming languages. And it describes new strategies and styles of programming that utilize specifications. The trend is just beginning, and the reader, having finished this book, will viii Preface certainly see that there is much yet to be done and to be discovered about programming with specifications.-
The Science of Programming
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A Theory of Objects
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Numerical Geometry of Non-Rigid Shapes
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Computer Systems
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Algebraic Approaches to Program Semantics
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Set Theory for Computing
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Beauty Is Our Business
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Parameterized Complexity
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A Discipline of Multiprogramming
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Asynchronous Circuits
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The Design of Well-Structured and Correct Programs
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String-Rewriting Systems
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Error-Free Polynomial Matrix Computations
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Prototyping-Oriented Software Development
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An Introduction to Formal Language Theory
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The Synthesizer Generator
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Methods and Applications of Error-Free Computation
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Adaptive Information Processing
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Reliable Computer Systems
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Programming with Sets
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Programming in Modula-2
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Adaptive Signal Processing
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Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics
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Algorithmic Algebra
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Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms
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Expert Systems and Probabilistic Network Models
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Algorithmic Language and Program Development
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Object-Oriented Database Programming
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The Design and Analysis of Algorithms
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Software Configuration Management Using Vesta
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The Origins of Digital Computers
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Larch: Languages and Tools for Formal Specification
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What Computing Is All About
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ML with Concurrency
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The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual
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Language Equations
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On a Method of Multiprogramming
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Programming Methodology
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Abstraction, Refinement and Proof for Probabilistic Systems
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Super-Recursive Algorithms
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Specification and Development of Interactive Systems
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Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics
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Evolutionary Synthesis of Pattern Recognition Systems
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Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code
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High Performance Discovery In Time Series
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Panoramic Vision
David Luckham is Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, where he directs the Program Analysis and Verification Project. He played a significant role in the founding of Rational Software in 1981, supplying both the Ada compiler from which the company's first products were developed and serving as a member of the initial software development team. Dr. Luckham is an acknowledged leader in high-level, multiprocessing programming languages; annotation languages; and event-based simulation systems for both hardware and software architectures. He has published more than one hundred technical articles, two of them winning ACM/IEEE Best Paper Awards, as well as three books on the design of Specification Languages and their application to software testing and verification, and hardware simulation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781461396871 |
| ISBN 10 | 1461396875 |
| Title | Programming with Specifications |
| Author | David Luckham |
| Series | Monographs In Computer Science |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2012-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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