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Originally Posted by JorgeLorenzo
Is like saying ultimately all numbers are linear. Yes one line follows on from the next but line 19 can effect all lines up to line 1019 by non-linear amounts (i.e. no effect on line 29, factor of one million on line 97). Code is in fact more like a miniature and massively simplified quantum system - every line effects every other line in some respect, however negligible that effect may be, no single line can be argued to be separate from the whole core function
Jorge,
I have been a professional programmer for more than 20 years. I have programmed in BASIC, COBOL, RPG, FORTRAN, PHP, Perl, Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, C# and even dabbled in Assembly, as well as numerous flavors of SQL, and other languages I've forgotten about.
So please bear in mind, when it comes to code, I am an expert. And you, sir, are embarrassing yourself. Your statement above shows no understanding of how a computer processor works.
NO, sir, one line of code does not subtly affect every other line of code in subtle and negligible ways. One line of code is one line of code. The code is compiled into processor operations which either update memory registers or provide instructions to the CPU on what to do with those memory registers.
It
is possible to write code which changes other code, or hijacks a line of execution, or changes stored data or updates memory variables. It is possible to take advantage of weaknesses in existing code to force it to override memory registers which are used to tell the CPU what to do next, to hijack an application.
However, each of those possibilities is detectible.
What you are writing about is pure hokum. Stop. Just stop.