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The end of the 1980s saw a growing interest in object orientation as both a design and programming methodology with the advent of programming languages like C++ and Eiffel. The trend was taken up by some in the formal methods community, including a team of researchers in Australia. Their contribution was a formal specification language, Object-Z, which had immediate industrial impact, gained rapid international recognition, and then two decades later began to fade, along with some of its contemporaries, from the formal methods scene. This paper details the rise and fall of Object-Z from the perspective of two of its original developers.

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    The VDM series of conferences, of which VDM ’90 was a part, transformed into the FME series (in 1993) and later (in 2005) the current FM conference series.

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Smith, G., Duke, D.J. (2020). Specification with Class: A Brief History of Object-Z. In: Sekerinski, E., et al. Formal Methods. FM 2019 International Workshops. FM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12233. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54997-8_4

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