Re: Bad faith and dishonesty

On 5/27/25 11:52 AM, olcott wrote:

On 5/27/2025 10:45 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 27/05/2025 16:28, olcott wrote:

The term "Program" is too narrow minded.
Unit of computation within a model of computation.

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You do like to keep your words moving, don't you?
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If you don't like 'program', why not use the term 'computation'?
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 I need my work stated in such a way that it can be plugged
into C functions, x86 machine language functions, TMs,
RASP machines.

The problem is that all of those all of these (but a TM) allow the creeation of "non-computations", because they allow accessing of non-inputs.
If you NEED that, then your problem is that you aren't working with an actual computation.
So, your answer is to expresz your idea as an actual Turing Machine, or limit yourself to code that actually is a computation, includes ALL its code, and only depends on what is actually the input, and nothing else.

 

After all, computations are what computers do.
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This will keep the dictionary happy:
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"The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
The result of computation; the amount computed."
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Wikipedia is happy: "Mechanical or electronic devices (or, historically, people) that perform computations are known as computers."
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And the rest of us can keep saying 'program' because /we/ know what we mean by it even if you don't.
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