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At the risk of going really philosophical, in the end words are just words, and your program is what it is. Given the vast, vast, vast space of possible programs it should come as no surprise that little tiny English words are hardly up to the task of completely rigidly classifying them. Especially programs, which are quite literally the most perverse mathematical constructs known to man, courtesy of the Church-Turing thesis.



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