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What's it called

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-10 10:24

Is there a term for a type of program that is guaranteed to always produce the same output?  For example, it never accepts keyboard input, never reads a timer, etc, so it must always follow the same execution path.

The only term that comes to mind is "deterministic" but that's not quite right.

Name: Anonymous 2011-01-10 18:32

>>3
Funny you should say that...  My motivation for asking was thinking about writing a compiler that let you declare certain sections of your code as "idempotent" (now that I know the term) and having it actually execute these sections of code at build time.

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