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Comment on: Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected
We absolutely have pragmatic compromises and shortcuts for dealing with termination problems, but that doesn't mean we've solved the Halting Problem, it means we've adapted to coexistence with it. (And maybe we've coexisted with the Problem for long enough it feels like most of those adaptations are sufficient day to day, which makes it all the harder to appreciate the bugs that are always there we just mitigate enough to worry about them less.)Potentially Infinite Loops are a great power. We've learned in most programming languages the "Uncle Ben lesson" that with such great power, comes grea