Citation
Manna, Z., & Waldinger, R. (1980). A deductive approach to program synthesis. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 2(1), 90-121.
Abstract
Program synthesis is the systematic derivation of a program from a given specification. A deductive approach to program synthesis is presented for the construction of recursive programs. This approach regards program synthesis as a theorem-proving task and relies on a theorem-proving method that combines the features of transformation rules, unification, and mathematical induction within a single framework.
