The trade off you speak of rely on the unspoken assumptions that (0) applying formal methods costs more than not to, and (1) the astonishing complexity of our programs is actually needed.
I highly doubt (0), at least when you take into account the costs of errors: crashes, wrong results, security breaches… These costs impact the user instead of the programmer, but they are costs nonetheless (plus, letting customers pay for these strikes me as not nice).
I highly doubt (1), at least when you take into account our overusing of low level programming languages, and of course anthropomorphic thinking.
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The trade off you speak of rely on the unspoken assumptions that (0) applying formal methods costs more than not to, and (1) the astonishing complexity of our programs is actually needed.
I highly doubt (0), at least when you take into account the costs of errors: crashes, wrong results, security breaches… These costs impact the user instead of the programmer, but they are costs nonetheless (plus, letting customers pay for these strikes me as not nice).
I highly doubt (1), at least when you take into account our overusing of low level programming languages, and of course anthropomorphic thinking.