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The same process suddenly reveals a different law (*). Although in the preceding definition the notion of a process should be taken generally, in the software world it often happens when a running process or an operating system suddenly exhibits all sorts of strange, sudden and unexplainable behaviour after some time or when running in a different environment. Here we can consider an environment as a sort of law under which a process operates (Chambers) or a process output and interaction as a law (Babbage). As a consequence of this we can never know whether our program crashes or hangs in the future.

(*) The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edition, p. 76

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

           

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