Program Derivation for Functional Programs - Felienne Hermans
Channel: Maitria Alex Harms
Date: 2016-06-20

Despite what your boss thinks, programs don’t just appear straight out of specifications. But…what if they did?

In this session I will show you how to systematically and step-by-step derive a program from a specification. Functional languages especially are very suited to derive programs for, as they are close to the mathematical notation used for proofs.

You will be surprised to know that you already know and apply many techniques for derivation, like Introduce Parameter as supported by Resharper. Did you know that is actually program derivation technique called generalization?