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Well, I shrug to think about how people would create a program that runs for an indeterminate time (that's most useful ones) in a coinductive total language. Yes, in practice it must be possible.

Then, total languages are just a subset of the non TC languages, and those are as prone to accumulating technical debit as TC languages. For avoiding technical debit, one needs something much less expressive.



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