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Comment by tjwebbnorfolk

4 hours ago

Except for COBOL, which is famously not a turing-complete language. So certain guesses have to be made.

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krupan  4 hours ago

But the compiler doesn't "roll the dice" when making those guesses! Compile the same code with the same compiler and you get the same result repeatedly.

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