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We begin by describing the Larch approach to specification and illustrating it with a few small examples. We then discuss LP, the Larch proof assistant, a tool that supports all the Larch languages. Our intent is to give you only a taste of these things. For a comprehensive look at Larch see [12].
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Garland, S.J., Guttag, J.V., Horning, J.J. (1993). An overview of Larch. In: Lauer, P.E. (eds) Functional Programming, Concurrency, Simulation and Automated Reasoning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56883-2_15
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