Dear Sir, Yours faithfully: an Everyday Story of Formality
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The paper seeks a perspective on the reality of Formal Methods in industry today. What has worked; what has not; and what might the future bring? We show that where formality has been adopted it has largely been benefical. We show that formality takes many forms, not all of them obviously
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