Formal methods and the future of programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was
just not interested in formal methods.
I’m not saying that anymore.
It’s not exactly that I think we were wrong all those years. To be clear, we’re strong
believers in the power of tools to help us write better and more reliable code. And type
systems are a kind of lightweight formal method that we’ve gotten an enormous amount of
benefit from. So you might expect us to have been big believers in more full-on f...
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