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My practitioner view of program analysis(sawyer.dev)
26 points by evakhoury a day ago | 4 comments
sanxiyn 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The gap between formal and informal has been pointed out as an Achilles' heel of formal methods from the dawn of the field, so critique is not particularly new. The standard reference is Social processes and proofs of theorems and programs (1979), which is worth reading.

MWil 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the author seems unaware of the SAT/SMT solver/analysis ecosystem

dang 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

sanxiyn 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why do you think so? I didn't get such impression.