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by brudgers 641 days ago
You don't want your telephone exchange to halt. That's why the engineering marvel Erlang. "Engineering" being the key word. The Halting problem isn't a real problem. Just pull the power cord.
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You want every call handled in finite time. It's not that there is an unending computation in a telephone exchange, but a series of finite tasks. You can call it corecursion, coinduction or something else co-.