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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
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+*Formal verification* ([[!wikipedia Formal_verification desc="Wikipedia
+article"]]) deals with formally reasoning about a program's correctness.
+
+Especially in the field of [[DSL]]s, this is used for asserting program codes'
+correctness, as explained in {{$microkernel/barrelfish#fof_plos09}}, for
+example.