That's the title of my presentation at Dog Food Conference 2014, 29-30 September, in Columbus, Ohio. If you found my post on "Test-Only Development" with the Z3 Theorem Prover was interesting, then you'll love this. What if simply writing "unit tests" was enough to produce a program which makes them pass? What if your compiler could guarantee that your OpenSSL replacement follows the TLS specification to the letter? What if you could write a test which showed that your code had no unintention...

This is the fifth post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Axiomatic Language Walter Wilson Homepage · Slides · Presentation One of the ways that you can describe a coding style is declarative versus imperative. That is, focusing on the desired result versus focusing on how that result should be computed, respectively. Walter Wilson's axiomatic language attempts to take the former approa...