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While very useful, mathematical proofs are not substitutes for unit testing, either. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not trie
by whimsy 16y ago
While very useful, mathematical proofs are not substitutes for unit testing, either.
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth
- dasil003 16y agoAfter that whole thing I wrote, do you really think that's my opinion?
- whimsy 16y agoNo: I wasn't trying to refute what you wrote. I was pointing out to the reader that though you were arguing that test cases are no replacement for proofs, and were right to argue that, the bugs that test cases catch may overlap with the bugs that a proof will catch, but the former set is not a subset of the latter set. If I offended your sensibilities, my apologies.