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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 15:40:47 -0500
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On 3/13/2025 10:38 AM, dbush wrote:
> On 3/13/2025 11:29 AM, olcott wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> It's irrelevant because it's not the question.
> 
> 

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