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You might be replying as if I'm disagreeing. If so, please re-read ancestor posts with the other spin.

In short: most of the objections people have to formal verification also apply to modeling something in software to begin with.

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No, I wasn't suggesting you were disagreeing, I was simply responding to your hypothetical disagreement that some might argue. My counter-argument could be just as applicable to any of the people who have professed similar beliefs to the ones you speculated that some may hold.

It's not so hypothetical. It's more the typical response of a programmer when formal methods come up. But I meant it as an observation of typical reactions, not as a hypothetical debate.

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