On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:27 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
*> The output of a computation is not the computation, and we make use of > non-halting programs all the time. For example, Operating Systems, Web > Servers, Virtual Machines, etc. Ideally, these programs never halt, and > usually they never output anything, unless they crash.* If you open a program on your computer but you don't get any output except for a hourglass symbol telling you to wait that never goes away then the Operating System has crashed your computer and you have to reboot your computer and try again. To make matters worse you can't be certain that hourglass wait symbol will never go away so you have to use judgement to determine when waited for it to load long enough and something is wrong. John K Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
