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Simplification
Each simplification step preserves meaning.
Goal is to produce equivalent expression whose meaning is more obvious than the meaning of the original.
Simplification process shows how program operates.
Denotational definition ->
specification
.
Denotational definition plus simplification strategy ->
implementation
.
Author:
Wolfgang Schreiner
Last Modification: October 14, 1997