Formal Verification of Programs
De Millo, Lipton and Perlis criticized the idea of formal verification of programs and argued that
- Formal verifications in computer science will not play the same key role as proofs do in mathematics.
- Absence of continuity, the inevitability of change, and the complexity of specification of real programs will make formal verification of programs difficult to justify and manage.
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