On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:

> I remain unconvinced that it's possible to formally verify non-trivial
> code to be bug free. You remain free to convince me otherwise or point
> me to available verified non-trivial software roughly on par with a
> complete operating system.

Precisely.  

I would think that the effort to make sure that any major process is bug 
free would be tremendous.

Or you could do like I did once.  I wrote a system years ago on a VAX for 
processing and tracking traffic tickets that was on-time and worked really 
well.  The first bug that was discovered turned out to be rather useful 
and so I left it alone and it became a feature.

Unfortunately, that's the only bug I can think of in any of my code that 
was actually useful.

Eric

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