CIFication> Mathematically based techniques for the speCIFication, development and verification of software and hardware systems. Referentially transparent languages are amenable to symbolic manipulation allowing program transformation (e.g. changing a clear inefficient speCIFication into an obscure but efficient program) and proof of correctness. {Oxford FM archive (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/formal-methods.html)}. (1996-05-15)
