Re: [tlug] [OT] Good IT Resume

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> It's simply not a good idea in general, because code is guaranteed to
> overspecify....

Is it?

Keep in mind that I'm not talking about including C code in the spec.,
here. Would you consider a specification of the state machine in Z
notation[1] to overspecify?

Surely if, without overspecifying, one can come up with a picture or an
English prose description of something designed to be implemented, one
can also, with some further work, come up with a more formal description
that would be more amenable to a formal proof of correctness and
interpetable by a computer, both of which are indisputably Good Things.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation for a rough idea, but I
can't recommend Jonathan Jacky's _The Way of Z_ enough.

cjs
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