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by antonvs 397 days ago
The meaning of "proof" in a computer science context is much stronger than that. A proof does involve demonstration, but it's demonstration via a deductive logical argument that shows that the conclusion is logically guaranteed to follow from the premises.

Compiler error messages would be a lot more verbose if they did that rigorously.

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Again, I didn’t intend the mathematical definition of “prove.”