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From: parnas@triose.eng.mcmaster.ca (David Parnas)
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To: John.Harrison@cl.cam.ac.uk, info-hol@ted.cs.uidaho.edu
Subject: Re: Parnas: "some theorems we should prove"

ONe of the reasons that I wrote the paper was to demonstrate that there
is a need for automatic proof of pretty easy theorems.  In my 
application, I need that much more than good support for "interesting"
theorems.

Prof. David Lorge Parnas
Communications Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
McMaster University, 
Hamilton, Ontario  Canada L8S 4K1

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