Topics what this book is about, its intended audience, what the reader ought to know, how the book is organized, acknowledgements. Specifications express information about a program that is not normally part of the program, and often cannot be expressed in a programming lan guage. In the past, the word "specification" has sometimes been used to refer to somewhat vague documentation written in English. But today it indicates a precise statement, written in a machine processable language, about the purpose and behavior of a program. Specifications are written in languages that are just as...
Topics what this book is about, its intended audience, what the reader ought to know, how the book is organized, acknowledgements. Specifications expr...