The future of library specification

Programming language technology has started to achieve one of the dreams of software engineering -- large scale utilization of reusable components. This is due to the standardization of large libraries and frameworks in popular programming languages such as C++, Java, C#, and Python. This standardization and widespread use of libraries will continue to make module specification more and more important. Yet most libraries and frameworks are only specified informally using natural language. This position paper explores research questions related to the specification of such libraries and frameworks.

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