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From: ben at algroup.co.uk (Ben Laurie)
Subject: Coding securely, was Linux (in)security

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:08:20 GMT, Ben Laurie said:
> 
> 
>>Duh. That's a complete misunderstanding of the halting problem - which
>>is, in essence, that you can't write a program which can predict, in
>>general, whether another program will halt. Its perfectly possible to
>>write programs that are guaranteed to halt.
> 
> 
> Correct.  The point is that 'can you design a language that *guarantees* non
> terminating programs' is isomorphic to the compiler solving the Halting Problem.

Partial recursive functions (no, they aren't Turing complete).

Cheers,

Ben.

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