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5. APPLICATION LANGUAGES

The expressiveness of our formal system is sufficient we believe to define the denotational semantics of application development languages. By providing a logically secure framework within which specialised type theories with matching derived inference rules may be established, we hope to enable a close fit between application languages and specification languages. This may enable a development methodology in which specifications are evolved into implementations by stages which are supported by automatic verification.


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