" People Disliked It " (extract from From Z to B and then Event-B: Assigning Proofs to Meaningful Programs)
Abrial, JR. (2013). From Z to B and then Event-B: Assigning Proofs to Meaningful Programs. In: Johnsen, E.B., Petre, L. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38613-8_1 In this article you will find the history of B and line 14 of the Paris metro . You will find the French version in the JRA conference at the Collège de France When writing the first paper on Z and starting to spread the idea of using a settheoretic notation to write a specification before writing a program, I received sometimes very negative answers. Some days at that time, I was invited to give a series of lectures at a Summer School but when the organizers saw the subject of my presentation, they canceled my visit, telling me that this subject was not relevant to computer scientists. I discovered then that set theory had a bad reputation among computer scientists in A...