Re:Ethereum is Doomed (2016)
by masklinn on Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:33AM
(#18929737)
> I stick by my assertion. In practice, software cannot be proven to be bug free.
You can't "stick by your assertion" then provide something which has almost no relation to your original assertion, that's called "moving the goalposts".
This moving of goalposts is even more asinine when you're moving them exactly where the comment which you originally decried had put them.
Reminder: here is what you originally felt you needed to note was wrong:
> Software can not be proved bug-free by tests (and even that assertion is not completely true, you can prove software through exhaustive testing if it's very very simple).
You can't "stick by your assertion" then provide something which has almost no relation to your original assertion, that's called "moving the goalposts".
This moving of goalposts is even more asinine when you're moving them exactly where the comment which you originally decried had put them.
Reminder: here is what you originally felt you needed to note was wrong:
> Software can not be proved bug-free by tests (and even that assertion is not completely true, you can prove software through exhaustive testing if it's very very simple).