Comment by zipy124

I think this misses a lot of reasons why learning verification is important. For instance learning the concept of invariants and their types such as loop invariants. They make reasoning about code in general easier, even if you never formally do any verification, it makes it easier to write tests or asserts(). A substantial amount of bugs are due to the program having a different state to that assumed by the programmer, and there are other tools that help with this. For example a statically typed language is a type of verification since it verifies a variable has a specific type and thus operations that can be performed on it, and limits the valid input and output range of any function. Languages like Rust are also verification in terms of memory correctness, and are also extremely useful tools.