Re: Test first as specification

On 2 Aug 2005 13:08:36 -0700, "Daniel Parker"
<danielaparker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Do you know of any prior experience with specifying a programming
>language by tests?

I'm no expert in this area, but it seems to me that there have been
standard test suites and benchmarks for C and C++. It would be very
interesting to design a language that passed these test suites, but
was not valid C or C++.




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