Download PDFOpen PDF in browserClosing the Gap Between Specification and Programming: VDM++ and Scala24 pages•Published: February 12, 2014AbstractWe argue that a modern programming language such as Scala offers a level of succinctness, which makes it suitable for program and systems specification as well as for high-level programming. We illustrate this by comparing the language with the VDM++ specification language. The comparison also identifies areas where Scala perhaps could be improved, inspired by VDM++. We furthermore illustrate Scala's potential as a specification language by augmenting it witha combination of parameterized state machines and temporal logic, defined as a library, thereby forming an expressive but simple runtime verification framework. In: Andrei Voronkov and Margarita Korovina (editors). HOWARD-60. A Festschrift on the Occasion of Howard Barringer's 60th Birthday, vol 42, pages 210-233.
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