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The GP had raised them, that's the only reason I commented about this.

You are right though, the standard for that type of software is very different from regular programming.

Still, we shouldn't forget that even the strongest typing can't substitute testing. Most likely, even if you had a formally proved system, which is already much, much more difficult than any other kind of regular software development practice, you would still want some amount of testing to go with that system before putting it in production.



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