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hyperpage's analogy would work if the property was "avoids undefined behaviour", rather than "avoids nontermination". When we encounter a webpage, we are being expected to execute potentially complex, well-being threatening code whose behaviour is about as easy to predict as obfuscated C.


True but again only if we're talking about parsing the web. This is about HTML files the author is producing themselves.


PDFs are capable of the same issues.




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