[comp.lang.misc] Semantics

db@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry) (02/01/90)

In article <14219@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>The most precise and succinct way of giving accurate descriptions of
>data transformations is to use denotational semantics.

This may be nitpicking, but there are other semantic formalisms which
are just as precise and succinct.

 Dave Berry, LFCS, Edinburgh Uni.      db%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk

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