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Why the hell are you being downvoted? I really appreciated this line of thinking.



Because he argues under the same incorrect assumption that writing mathematical proofs is more fault-proof than writing code. Which is what the answers on stackexchange are partly about.


I liked this part of one answer especially

> Still, I hope that this sheds some light on the question that is implied: "What really is the difference between proving some theorem and writing a program?" (To which a careless observer of the Curry-Howard correspondence might say: "Nothing at all!")


i think he's arguing that it gives us a more precise language to describe our documentation than just regular comments, not that mathematical proofs are fault proof




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