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

When HHH correctly emulates N steps of the
above DDD it cannot possibly reach its own
"return" instruction and terminate normally.

On 3/13/2025 8:55 AM, dbush wrote:
> On 3/13/2025 9:41 AM, olcott wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> But it *is* reachable code when DD is executed directly, 

Because the directly executed code like DDD correctly
emulated by HHH1
DOES NOT HAVE THE PATHOLOGICAL SELF-REFERENCE OF
CALLING ITS OWN EMULATOR YOU NITWIT.

It is like you really really believe that sum(2,3) == 7
even though the sum of 2 + 3 == 5.

-- 
Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer