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Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil... by jnxx on Monday August 24, 2020 @12:37PM (#24262344)
> It would be considered a dick move to criticism someones code, if the code was proven to produce the correct result.

Formal proof is much much harder than making code understandable and reviewable. It can be done but it is not easy, and can yield surprising results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompCert

http://envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-python-s...

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