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The keyword is "formal". | 202 comments | Create New Account

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The keyword is "formal".

Authored by: reiisi on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 07:58 PM EST

Formal means "of form".

Math.

It's kind of similar to the argument between focusing on theory or application
in education.

Theories are great for providing a framework for understanding. But theories
only exist in the head, and each head is different. Each person who
"understands" a theory has a different (to some degree) understanding
of the theory.

Without application, theories take us nowhere useful. Without application, we
have no idea how close one person's understanding of a theory is to another's.

Formal specifications are not applied and concrete until they are applied. And
then they go beyond formal specification. When you put concrete stuff in a
formal spec it is no longer (entirely) a formal spec. It transforms into an
implementation document, to the degree there is concrete stuff in it.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

The keyword is "formal". - Authored by: nick_battle on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 09:09 AM EST
- The keyword is "formal". - Authored by: Wol on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 04:14 PM EST

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