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From: "Fred. Zwarts" <F.Zwarts@HetNet.nl>
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Subject: Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Very Stupid
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:34:57 +0100
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Op 13.mrt.2025 om 21:35 schreef olcott:
> On 3/13/2025 2:20 PM, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
>> Op 13.mrt.2025 om 14:41 schreef olcott:
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Why would we be interested in your simulator that is not able to reach 
>> the end of the program described in its input when direct execution 
>> and world-class simulators are perfectly able to reach that end of 
>> exactly the same input?
> 
> I am going to ignore all of your nonsense posts.
> 

As usual you ignore all errors you make, because you know no rebuttal.