the programmer’s task is not just to write down a program, but that his main task is to give a formal proof that the program he proposes meets the equally formal functional specification
University of Texas in AustinOn the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science
As computers become ever more powerful, the job becomes to de-program the error states, to prove that the intended outcome will happen (rather than the unintended outcome)
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