On 20/08/2025 21:42, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
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And your halt decider is? Crap, Lie, or both?
Well, it gets the answer wrong, as one can easily see by
compiling and running DD().
Of course, that doesn't answer /your/ question.
I don't /know/ the answer to your question, but I can guess, of
course, and my guess is that it's crap.
Maybe - just *maybe* - Mr Olcott has managed to keep a gag
running for 22 years and still finds it amusing to parade his
Comp Sci bollocks around and lure people into taking him
seriously while he stuffs a satyrical fist into his mouth and
chortles at us all. I have to concede the possibility.
But I don't think so. I think he's sincere; I really do.
Hopelessly misguided? Sure. Innately unable to "get" Turing's
point? Indubitably. Capable of misrepresenting people in the hope
that he can twist their words into support for his case? No
question (videlicet his citation of my agreeing that he has a
case for returning 0 from HHH(DD), which he stopped doing only
when I turned it into a #define)? Without question. But I don't
think he's lying about his 'decider'. I really think he really
thinks he's got something.
So it's not a lie. It's just crap. Sheer, unmitigated bollocks,
but probably sincere bollocks.
Does that answer your question?
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