> There is one thing that developers like more than building things — and that is breaking things built by other people. Haha. This is not as universal as the author thinks. Every time I need to reverse-engineer something obscured on purpose, I wish we could just get along. Every time I have to reverse-engineer something obscured by accident, I call it debugging. But even if I solve the puzzle, it's like solving cros…
Unfortunately the halting problem takes all your mathematical certainty and throws it out the window. It's very easy to take your application which will halt within a finite amount of time to one that will not. You'll find most programmers and companies are not going to spend the massive amount of time to ensure their logic is correct, but instead throw the application out there quickly and fix it based on crashes and feedback.