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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

echinopsis posted:

there is not only 0 and 1 but also 2 but 2 is a
secret

a commie secret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

There Will Be Penalty posted:

why is the size of a byte only 8 bits? we'd never have to worry about stoopid multi-byte encodings if it were 32 bits!

so loving spoiled, back in the day the largest byte was 6 bits and people were happy to have it. (the term was coined in the design of the predecessor to the series/360, the ibm stretch, which has bit-level addressing with a variable length "bite", reading/writing between 1 and 6 bits on any read/write).

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

President Beep posted:

why do people even bother with c? b is much better.

it was basically c without types, you can simulate the experience just fine by never using any type other than 'void*'.

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

Trabisnikof posted:

i dare one of you motherfuckers to actually show me right here and now that the halting problem isn't solvable, go ahead i'll wait

assume we have a program f such that f(g,x) answers yes if the program g halts running on input x, otherwise it answers no.

then construct
g(x)=if f(x,x) then while(1) {} else return

now f(g,g) answers yes iff f(g,g) answes no, which is a contradiction.

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