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Larry Wall spoke: > > Here are some from the "bad" directory. (reads from one) ... and they > want us to solve the halting problem. No. <groan> That was RFC12, mine. I can't figure out why so many people interpret that RFC as requiring a solution to the halting problem. If anything, it explicitly recognizes that the halting problem is insoluble. Many compilers compute reachability; it's not fundamentally hard. Perhaps I should have used the theoretical terms, and talked about use-def and def-use chains, GEN and KILL sets? But that would have limited the audience, and made it an internals RFC. Ah guess what I needs is to explicate them arfseez better. <ObNihongo> Gomen nasai. Zyuu ni ban wa boku no tsumaranaimono desu yo. I guess I'll try again to get my frozen version accepted into the RFC list. Maybe if I add a "why you don't need to solve the halting problem" section and translate it into Japanese, Larry'll revisit it -- he'll be able to work on perl6 and study Japanese at the same time? :-|Thread Previous | Thread Next