What python can NOT do?

Nobody nobody at nowhere.com
Fri Aug 28 22:10:18 EDT 2009


On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:31:22 -0700, r wrote:

>> Since Python is Turing-complete, there's no reason a whole OS
>> couldn't be authored in Python.
> 
> Yes, and one could go from NY to LA on a unicycle but would one really
> want to? Talk about some redass and blueballs! *yikes*
> 
> Yes, if i have learned anything in my life, i can say there are
> absolutely no boundaries to what humans can achieve short the limit of
> their own imagination and the ever fading remainder of ones life.

Well, other than writing a program to determine whether a program in a
Turing-complete language will terminate on some input, or devising a
formal system which is sound, complete, and able to express its own
metatheory, or ...

Some things are actually impossible.




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