On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 13:09, David Boyes wrote: > This is programmer error -- the hardware is doing exactly what it should do, > methinks. Correcting the developers usually helps, although that's much > harder. I've yet to find a programming language or toolset that doesn't do > exactly what the programmer tells it to do, even if it's stupid...8-)
I think you could make the case that PROLOG, when it's behaving nondeterministically, is *perhaps* not doing what the programmer tells it to. Oh, and there's Quantum INTERCAL--which, alas, lived on the late, lamented assurdo.com--which might, or might not, have been doing what you told it to do. Adam
