In article <879433137snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>, fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) writes:
>In article <879381995snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
>           fred@genesis.demon.co.uk "Lawrence Kirby" writes:
>
>...
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>>Simply knowing a program is strictly conforming does not mean you can
>>predict what it will output. However if you do know what input a
>>strictly conforming program receives you should be able to predict from
>>the standard alone what output it generates (although I'm not 100% sure of
>>that).
>
>After sleeping on it it is fairly obvious that isn't true.

Obviously, because you're talking about the halting problem.

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