Input-directed program design

  • Authors:
  • Luigi Logrippo

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM '81 Proceedings of the ACM '81 conference
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

In spite of their importance in the world of computing, business data processing programming techniques have scarcely been studied in the recent literature on program verification and program synthesis (see among others (D, Jo)). Some authors seem to tacitly assume that business data processing programs are straightforward and can be constructed according to the same principles that apply to well-studied programs such as factorial, greatest common divisor, or sorting. Within a completely different research framework, Warnier (W) and Jackson (J) have shown that these programs indeed are structurally interesting and have their own rules of construction (see (CY) for a tutorial on these ideas). This paper attempts to bridge the gap existing between these two schools of thought.