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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> I personally think SPARK is the worst thing every to happen to Ada,
> because it took the focus off of the great things that Ada 2012 itself
> can do for you (without any verification) and onto something that only
> makes sense for a niche.

I might not go as far as that, but I'm deeply impressed by people who
can use SPARK without formal training and possibly even ongoing
handholding.

I tried proving a quicksort and failed dismally; my fault no doubt, but
the CE version of the tool seemed a little flaky, where fixing what it
seemed to be saying was the problem resulted in a game of cyclic
whack-a-mole.

And Time!