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I don't remember the name, but there's already an Esolang that executes its commands unreliably. Through careful program design, you can ensure that a sequence

by o11c 3y ago

I don't remember the name, but there's already an Esolang that executes its commands unreliably. Through careful program design, you can ensure that a sequence of commands will execute with 99%, 99.9%, etc. reliability.

Aeolos 3y ago
Java2000 iirc. 2 decades later, the same approach was unironically popularized for infrastructure as “chaos engineering”.
- majewsky 3y ago
  Not sure if that was /s or not, but it is indeed an important insight to realize that no IT system can have 100% reliability once you factor in hardware failures and power outages. And that's before we talk about bugs.
  - ansc 3y ago
    Not to even mention the heat death of the universe!
codezero 3y ago
Sounds a bit like Malbolge but not quite. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge