Tony Morris

@dibblego @darinmorrison Drawing the line at runtime is very interesting when thinking about things from a language design perspective.

@djspiewak @darinmorrison so I can point to anything and say "that is a program" and this is useful?

@dibblego @darinmorrison No, perhaps not useful, but it’s a definition, you can’t just dismiss it because you see no immediate use.

@djspiewak @darinmorrison I dismiss it because it is arbitrary nonsense.

@dibblego @darinmorrison ALL of it is arbitrary nonsense. It’s just that some of it is *useful* arbitrary nonsense.

@djspiewak @darinmorrison the ability to say, "that is not a program" is a pre-requisite to utility. It allows implies absence of arbitrary

@dibblego @darinmorrison What I’m saying is there is not “one true definition decided by the universe".

@djspiewak @darinmorrison I agree but don't let it be true that some attempts at defining program can be discarded, sometimes easily.