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j2kun on Feb 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Translating Mathematics into Code: Examples in Jav...

What blows my mind is that variables in C implicitly depend not only on time but also on the entire contents of memory!

sukilot on Feb 10, 2015 [–]

And also depend on all the contents of disk and network and all attached input devices.

tel on Feb 10, 2015 | [–]

And if things are multithreaded then shared memory variables depend implicitly upon all possible actions of all possible simultaneous threads.

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