From a5ca173f9adb28202870c49af960bdfe6af548f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuchen Pei Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 12:45:17 +0200 Subject: minor edit --- microposts/ats.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'microposts') diff --git a/microposts/ats.md b/microposts/ats.md index 867ce88..798ecae 100644 --- a/microposts/ats.md +++ b/microposts/ats.md @@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ date: 2018-05-22 --- -> ATS (Applied Type System) is a programming language designed to unify programming with formal specification. ATS has support for combining theorem proving with practical programming through the use of advanced type systems. A past version of The Computer Language Benchmarks Game has demonstrated that the performance of ATS is comparable to that of the C and C++ programming languages.[2] By using theorem proving and strict type checking, the compiler can detect and prove that its implemented functions are not susceptible to bugs such as division by zero, memory leaks, buffer overflow, and other forms of memory corruption by verifying pointer arithmetic and reference counting before the program compiles. Additionally, by using the integrated theorem-proving system of ATS (ATS/LF), the programmer may make use of static constructs that are intertwined with the operative code to prove that a function attains its specification. +> ATS (Applied Type System) is a programming language designed to unify programming with formal specification. ATS has support for combining theorem proving with practical programming through the use of advanced type systems. A past version of The Computer Language Benchmarks Game has demonstrated that the performance of ATS is comparable to that of the C and C++ programming languages. By using theorem proving and strict type checking, the compiler can detect and prove that its implemented functions are not susceptible to bugs such as division by zero, memory leaks, buffer overflow, and other forms of memory corruption by verifying pointer arithmetic and reference counting before the program compiles. Additionally, by using the integrated theorem-proving system of ATS (ATS/LF), the programmer may make use of static constructs that are intertwined with the operative code to prove that a function attains its specification. [Wikipedia entry on ATS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS_(programming_language)) -- cgit v1.2.3