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 More options Jan 21 1990, 4:51 pm
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
From: merri...@ccavax.camb.com
Date: 21 Jan 90 21:51:49 GMT
Local: Sun, Jan 21 1990 4:51 pm
Subject: Re: Reasons why you don't prove your programs are correct
In article <16...@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM>,
    jos...@athertn.Atherton.COM (Flame Bait) writes:

> With current technology you can not prove a (real-world) program correct.

In my corner of the real world, most programs consist mainly of operating
system and other outside vendor supplied subsystem calls glued together with
rather trivial computations. It seems to me that it is futile to attempt to
prove my programs correct if the low level operations (from my point of view)
are not rigorously defined (let alone proven to be correct themselves).

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