> In my opinion, formal methods for software engineering have been heavily advocated for by people and organizations who want to sell books, seminars, and conferences. People who want to act as gatekeepers while extracting money from the system and reframe history in their own terms.
Is there really that much of an FM consulting-industrial complex? There's me, Galois, Atelier B, and Adacore, those are the only independent FM groups I can think of off the top of my head. And two of those are tied to specific verification languages.
Most of the FM advocates are academics, which is one reason why there's so much friction between industry and academia wrt FM.
Is there really that much of an FM consulting-industrial complex? There's me, Galois, Atelier B, and Adacore, those are the only independent FM groups I can think of off the top of my head. And two of those are tied to specific verification languages.
Most of the FM advocates are academics, which is one reason why there's so much friction between industry and academia wrt FM.