[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 85 - September 13, 2008

[Daryoush Mehrtash]

What I am trying to figure out is that say on the code for the IRC bot that
is show here

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Roll_your_own_IRC_bot/Source

What would theorem proofs do for me?

Daryoush

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:

> dmehrtash:
> >    I have a newbie question....  Does theorem proofs have a use for an
> >    application?  Take for example the IRC bot example
> >    ([1]http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Roll_your_own_IRC_bot)  listed
> >    below.  Is there any insight to be gained by theorem proofs (as in
> COQ)
> >    into the app?
>
> Some customers require very high level of assurance that there are no
> bugs in the code you ship to them. Theorem proving is one great way to
> make those assurances.
>
> -- Don
>
> P.S.
>
> <publicity>
>
> In fact, it's the subject of a talk on Tuesday,
>
>    http://www.galois.com/blog/2008/09/11/theorem-proving-for-verification/
>
> </publicity>
>
>
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