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elepha.sum[e81,jmc] Summary of Elephant paper for POPL
Outline
1. elephant as a formalism for practical program proving
2. value of standard logical formalisms
compatibility with mathematical formalisms
computer checked proofs are available
3. sequential elephant
4. what has to be proved
5. relation to recursive formalism (state vector formalisms?)
6. historical elephant
7. equivalence of programs
8. parallel programs
9. recursive programs and subroutine call
10. futuristic programs