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Comment by Dragon-Hatcher

6 hours ago

The language is Turing-complete, not the program. Rice's theorem says that we can't have a program that verifies a non-trivial property for all other programs. It doesn't say we can't verify that property for some programs. That would imply you could never know anything about a program.

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