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Apr 2008
35 m

Microsoft Research: Spec#

SCOTT HANSELMAN
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Scott sits down with Mike Barnett and Rustan Leino of Microsoft Research and talks about the Spec# programming language. The compiler enables Design By Contract and extends C#. The team needs your help to get these features in the next version of C#!

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