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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 10:29:51 -0500
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On 3/13/2025 10:09 AM, dbush wrote:
> On 3/13/2025 11:04 AM, olcott wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Irrelevant, as that's not what the halting problem is about.
> 

We cannot possibly get to how that is relevant to the
problem UNTIL AFTER YOU FIRST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS TRUE.

People that do not dishonestly do everything they can
to avoid an honest dialogue would always have some points
of mutual agreement.

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