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:::: I also chose a brief syntax error for the Julia example. I think though that the original "halt and catch fire" used to mean exploit a bug in the underlying CPU microcode in order to crash the hardware by having it process an illegal instruction. If this was still possible even with executing raw machine code on recent CPU's I would hope the CPU maker might pay a bounty for information on such an exploit! --[[User:Wherrera|Wherrera]] ([[User talk:Wherrera|talk]]) 06:59, 16 September 2021 (UTC).
::::: That sort of thing briefly crossed my mind too, but it would be hardware-specific as opposed to programming-language-specific, and therefore somewhat against the primary purpose of this whole site. Like most everyone else I just assumed we were looking for an emergency "panic" that could be inserted into any other program, and only trigger when some critical condition was not met, maybe the task should be changed to explicitly ask for that. The task is also asking for the minimum number of lines rather than the minimum number of characters, btw. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 12:27, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
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