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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Very Stupid
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:41:57 -0500
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On 3/13/2025 6:18 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <vqud4e$36e14$3@dont-email.me>,
> Fred. Zwarts <F.Zwarts@HetNet.nl> wrote:
>> Op 12.mrt.2025 om 16:31 schreef olcott:
>>> [snip]
>>> When N steps of DDD are correctly emulated by every element
>>> of the set of C functions named HHH that do x86 emulation and
>>>
>>> N is each element of the set of natural numbers
>>>
>>> then no DDD of the set of HHH/DDD pairs ever reaches its
>>> "return" instruction and terminates normally.
>>
>> In other words no HHH of the set of HHH/DDD pairs ever succeeds to
>> complete the simulation of a halting program. Failure to reach the end
>> of a halting program is not a great success. If all HHH in this set
>> fail, it would be better to change your mind and start working on
>> something more useful.
> 
> He seems to think that he's written a program that detects that
> his thing hasn't 'reached its "return" instruction and
> terminate[d] normally', given some number of steps, where that
> number is ... the cardinality of the natural numbers.
> 
> I wonder if he knows that the set of natural numbers is
> infintite, though I suspect he'd say something like, "but it's
> countable!"  To which I'd surmise that he has no idea what that
> means.
> 

void DDD()
{
   HHH(DDD);
   return;
}

Everyone here knows that when N steps of DDD are correctly
simulated by HHH that DDD never reaches its own "return"
instruction and terminates normally thus never halts.
*AND THEY LIE ABOUT IT BY ENDLESSLY CHANGING THE SUBJECT*

My posthumous reviewers will condemn them.
When DDD is correctly simulated by HHH once the behavior
of DDD exactly matches the infinite recursion behavior
pattern.

int DD()
{
   int Halt_Status = HHH(DD);
   if (Halt_Status)
     HERE: goto HERE;
   return Halt_Status;
}

We have the exact same effect when N steps of DD
are correctly emulated by HHH. I created DDD because
some of my reviewers are not technically competent
enough to see that line 2 of DD is unreachable code
when N steps of DD are correctly simulated by HHH.

> I plonked Olcott a few years ago, yet I see dozens of posts a
> day a day of people replying to him.
> 
> I gather, based on reading the quoted text, that he is near the
> end of a battle with cancer; that's very sad.  Perhaps he should
> spend what time remains to him with friends and family, and less
> arguing with strangers on USENET.  Maybe we could all help him
> in this endeavor by not responding.  I, for one, intend to take
> my own advice after this post.
> 
>   - Dan C.
> 


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