On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:09:41PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:

>                                                       For day-to-day (or even
> week-to-week) work, testing isn't going anywhere.

It's too late for me to be writing anything at all really, but here's just a
couple of thoughts on the relationship between formal proofs and testing:

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried
it."  --  Donald Knuth (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html)

http://www.google.com/search?q=naur+%22correctness+proof+mini+case+study%22

-- 
Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net
http://www.pjcj.net

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