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I have to add the obligatory “you’ve solved the halting problem” question here.


No idea what this has to do with the halting problem


> In most software there's no such thing as unrecoverable panic

> The halting problem is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running

They’re very much related to determining you’re gonna panic or not.




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