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Subject: Re: WCSAC.0107

Author: martin fierz

Date: 02:07:12 05/10/05

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On May 09, 2005 at 17:43:17, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 09, 2005 at 17:24:36, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On May 09, 2005 at 14:54:54, Steven Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>WCSAC.0107:
>>
>>forget it - WCSAC is no good. use ECMGCP instead...
>
>It is still interesting to debug the test suite.
>
>After his efforts, we will have a better understanding of this particular set.
>
>I expect every test suite will always have bugs in it until we drive every
>position all the way forward to formal proof of the outcome.
>
>I think that WAC is probably the most carefully debugged, but I am also sure
>that there are bugs still in it.

both WACnew and ECMGCP are good. WCSAC as a book is just full of errors. if you
want to spend your time debugging it, fine. if you want to spend your time
debugging your program, use WACnew (for weak programs only) or ECMGCP.

cheers
  martin



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