Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Pre/Post Conditions
Category: Languages > .net      Posted: 27 Jun 09

In this episode we are going to take a look at the new Code Contracts library which is out of MS Research and will be part of .Net 4.0/Vs2010.

Contracts allow for many different ways to perform language agnostic code validation and in this episode we are going to focus on how to setup pre ...

Simon Peyton-Jones: Composing Contracts - An Adventure in Financial Engineering
Category: Languages > Programming      Posted: 09 Mar 09

Financial and insurance contracts do not sound like promising territory for functional programming and formal semantics, but in fact we have discovered that insights from programming languages bear directly on the complex subject of describing and valuing a large class of contracts.

We i...