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From: smryan@clipper.ingr.com (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Will this *thread* ever halt?
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Date: 17 Jun 91 18:07:25 GMT
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>Since you obviously weren't paying attention: ``Self-contained C
>program'' was defined by Doug to mean one that used neither malloc()
>nor an unpredictable external input.
>
>> Your conclusion
>> therefore only applies to bounded programs.
>
>No shit. That's what ``for any given *size*'' means: it's a *bound*.
>(``Welcome to Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Can you say `bound'? B-O-U-N-D.
>Bound. Very good, boys and girls. This is a bound.'')

And of course I missed were you put a bound on all external storage, including
temporary files, discs, mag tapes, and whatever else.

You're just so sexy.
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