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I get the sense that the difference often stems from the nature of software as "words you can run" vs. hardware as "physical manifestation of words." For quite
by fixermark 10y ago
I get the sense that the difference often stems from the nature of software as "words you can run" vs. hardware as "physical manifestation of words."
For quite a bit of software these days, the correct program and the description of the correct program are pretty similar artifacts.
- gloriousduke 10y ago> For quite a bit of software these days, the correct program and the description of the correct program are pretty similar artifacts. My brain was going mental mobius strip when I was originally responding and thinking of something along these lines. Maybe what I was getting at is that the an idea like the Halting problem doesn't apply as viciously to hardware?