Claims of Progress and Industrial Adoption
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views must be simpler but true Nobody doubts the value of abstraction, but it is essential to remember that everything that we can derive from an abstraction must be true of the real thing. If we can derive something that is not actually true, what we have is not an abstraction but a lie. Our role model should be engineers, not philosophers or logicians Engineers use mathematics in very different ways from pure mathematicians and logicians. Mathematicians who prove theorems use axiom systems that allow them to search for a proof. Engineers usually evaluate expressions, a process that requires no search, just repeated substitution of values for variables and application of functions. M ore money is not the answer. It is common for researchers who do not achieve what they set out to achieve to blame the funding. Research in formal methods for software development has been very well funded. More money won’t help; more thinking will.
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