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We want to allow recursion and loops. We want to be able to run arbitrary code. We just need to be a little wiser about how we do it.
by aakilfernandes 10y ago
We want to allow recursion and loops. We want to be able to run arbitrary code.
We just need to be a little wiser about how we do it.
- dkarapetyan 10y agoHow did this madness start? I don't want law to be turing complete. Especially programatic law. Why are people so nonchalant about this? This is not sane design. You want totality and termination proofs. At least that's what I would look for in any programatic system of law.
- saalweachter 10y agoBiggest rock is best rock.
- aakilfernandes 10y agoThe DAO would not be possible without it.
- marssaxman 10y agoWhy on earth would you want that? How can such a staggering explosion of potential complexity justify itself?
- tamana 10y agoTheDAO showed a $40m reason why we hackers want the complexity :-)
- marssaxman 10y agoThis debacle seems like the most obvious possible outcome for any system combining the concepts "Turing-completeness" and "cryptocurrency blockchain". What baffles me most about the whole mess is that any of it caught anyone by surprise. I guess I had vaguely (naively?) assumed that the people building Ethereum and TheDAO must have come up with some clever solution for this sort of problem, but so far I haven't heard of one.
- pushrax 10y agoYou don't need recursion to have a useful computing system. Think about GPUs, which don't have a stack at all.