By Greg Morrisett
Communications of the ACM,
July 2009,
Vol. 52 No. 7, Page 106
10.1145/1538788.1538813
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In the early 1970s, pioneers like Floyd, Dijkstra, and Hoare argued that programs should be formally specified and proven correct. But for the past 40 years, most of the computer science community has discounted this vision as an unrealistic goal.
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