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SPARK Alive

SPARK
KindProgramming language
Appeared2005
StatusAlive
CreatorPraxis → AdaCore
FamilyAda
Sourcewww.adacore.com ↗

Ada contracts made provable — absence of runtime errors established by theorem provers, not tests; the language PHP2Shell's bugs couldn't be written in.

A dialect of Ada

SPARK (2009) — the Ada subset for verification — adds proof contracts to Ada: every function's behavior provable, no runtime errors by construction.\n\nIt runs safety-critical systems where 'it probably works' isn't acceptable — avionics, rail, space.

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Sources

  1. adacore.com/sparkpro
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)