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There is a permanent trade-off in verification: an expressive language is hard to prove things about, and a language that is easy to prove things about is hard to write in.

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formal proof Machine-checked mathematics: proof assistants such as Lean, and what changes when correctness is certified rather than refereed.

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What Hillel Wayne actually said

  1. Hillel Wayne Writer and consultant on formal methods
    Formal verifiers have a dilemma: the more expressive the language, the harder it is to prove anything in it. But the less expressive the language, the harder it is to write anything in it.

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