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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to "cross the chasm"?
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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> It is impossible to prove everything, neither theoretically nor 
> practically. 

Hence dynamic checks that, if used as defined in „Design 
by Contract“, will give programmers a way of trying another 
solution at runtime.

Seems different than just halting the program because 
mathematics could not deliver a complete demonstration
of the program’s never-fails property.