Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
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| Secondly, as an alternative to Lisp I propose a random generator of
| hexadecimal machine code. Any sequence of machine codes is a correct
| program.
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Not true! In most ISPs there are sequences which will cause
"Illegal Instruction" traps and/or machine checks. Such programs
are, by definition, incorrect.

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| It would not smoke the CPU, you know.
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That's also not true on certain CPUs. [E.g., on most of the MIPS ISPs,
which have software-maintained fully-associative TLBs, putting multiple
PTEs into the TLB which overlap address ranges *can* literally "smoke"
(or at least overheat to the point of damage) the CPU!]

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| > I don't see how having the programs I'd like to write be rejected
| > is a productivity win.
| 
| Random generator is greatly more productive.
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Hmmm... Random code ==> Causes machine check which cannot be cleared
without power-cycling the machine. Strange definition of "productive"...


-Rob

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