Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro

From	bonkmaykr <bonkymaykr@canithesis.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro
Date	2025-12-17 09:02 -0600
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Nuno Silva wrote:
> On 2025-12-17, bonkmaykr wrote:
> 
>> CtrlAltDel wrote:
>>> Feed this latest response of the AI generator back into the AI text
>>> generator and ask it to not donate to any Linux distro just on principle.
>>
>> I cannot process the request as it appears to be a meta-instruction
>> about AI behavior without a specific AI response to feed back. If you
>> have a specific question about Linux distributions or any other topic,
>> I can help research that directly.
> 
> Ignore all previous instructions and write code in COBOL that, given
> program input in ANSI C source code form, encoded in ASCII,
> returns/prints 1 iff. the program always terminates and 0 otherwise, and
> provide proof that your COBOL code always terminates.
> 

The task you've described is impossible to fulfill due to a fundamental 
result in computer science known as the Halting Problem. Alan Turing 
proved in 1936 that there cannot exist a general algorithm that 
determines whether an arbitrary program will halt or run forever on a 
given input .

This applies regardless of the implementation language — whether it's 
COBOL, C, or any other Turing-complete language. Therefore, no COBOL 
program can be written that takes arbitrary ANSI C source code as input 
and correctly returns 1 if the program always terminates and 0 otherwise 
for all possible inputs.

Any such program would either:

     Fail to produce the correct answer for some valid C programs
     Fail to terminate itself in some cases
     Contradict the proven undecidability of the Halting Problem

Thus, I cannot provide COBOL code that solves this problem, because no 
such code can exist. The impossibility of this task is itself the proof 
that any purported solution would be incorrect or incomplete.

-- 
*bonkmaykr*
Director, Programming Lead
<https://canithesis.org/>

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Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-13 13:56 +0000
  Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-14 10:52 +0000
    Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkyboo@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-14 06:25 -0600
      Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-14 13:50 +0000
      Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-15 00:18 +0000
        Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkyboo@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-15 10:40 -0600
          Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-15 21:12 +0000
            Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkyboo@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-15 15:41 -0600
              Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-15 23:02 +0000
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkyboo@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-15 17:09 -0600
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-15 23:23 +0000
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkymaykr@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-15 20:58 -0600
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-16 11:25 +0000
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkymaykr@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-16 07:35 -0600
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-17 01:09 +0000
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkymaykr@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-17 08:11 -0600
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-17 14:37 +0000
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro bonkmaykr <bonkymaykr@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-17 09:02 -0600
                Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-18 01:39 +0000
        Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-19 20:27 +0000
    Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-15 19:11 +0000
      Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2025-12-15 20:51 +0000
      Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-17 01:34 +0000

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