The SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop 2012

Programming languages and software verification

or: Theorem provers are a P.L. researcher's best friends

Abstract

This talk starts with a brief overview of contemporary research in programming languages, emphasizing the growing importance of software verification in this field. Automatic and interactive theorem provers play an important role in this area. I give a short introduction to the Coq proof assistant, then emphasize how Coq and other interactive theorem provers are changing the way the programming languages community conducts and publishes research.

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Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr