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Almost all computer programs interact in some way with the world outside the computer, but this interaction is rather trivial for most programs whose specification or verification has been studied. Thus a program for computing a mathematical function generally has trivial interaction, whereas interaction with the outside world is the essence of a program for controlling the landings of airplanes.
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McCarthy, J. (1990). Two Kinds of Program Specifications. In: Lloyd, J.W. (eds) Computational Logic. ESPRIT Basic Research Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76274-1_5
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