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undebuggability

undebuggability noun: the quality of being undebuggable.

Noun

undebuggability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being undebuggable.
    • The simplest answer is the large overhead required by the techniques described here, and the consequential undebuggability of programs based on these techniques. This makes problems admitting more immediately testable solutions more attractive in some ways.1980 May 12, Jon Doyle, “Introduction”, in A Model for Deliberation, Action, and Introspection (AD-A105 666), Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Artificial Intelligence...
    • Old programs do not learn, they simply fade away. So do human beings, their undebuggable programs replaced by younger, possibly less tangled, ones in other human heads. But at least until the state of undebuggability is reached, human programs are modified adaptively and repeatedly by learning...1983, Herbert A[lexander] Simon, “Why Should Machines Learn?”, in Ryszard S[tanisław] Michalski, Jaime G[uillermo] Carbonell, Tom M[ichael] Mitchell, editors, Machine Learning: An Artificial...

Examples of undebuggability in a sentence

  • But at least until the state of undebuggability is reached, human programs are modified adaptively and repeatedly by learning processes that don’t require a knowledge of the internal representation.1983, Herbert A[lexander] Simon, “Why Should Machines Learn?”, in Ryszard S[tanisław] Michalski, Jaime G[uillermo] Carbonell, Tom M[ichael]...
  • We hope to have provoked some response on our criticism but also to have comforted some users in that undebuggability and unreliable results are not only their own fault.1993, Peter Desain, Henkjan Honing, “Conclusion”, in Array, volume 13, numbers 1–3, page 18, column 3:

Questions about undebuggability

What does undebuggability mean?
Undebuggability means the quality of being undebuggable.
How do you use undebuggability in a sentence?
But at least until the state of undebuggability is reached, human programs are modified adaptively and repeatedly by learning processes that don’t require a knowledge of the internal representation.
What part of speech is undebuggability?
Undebuggability is a noun.

Words near undebuggability in the dictionary

  1. undebauched
  2. undebilitated
  3. undebilitating
  4. undebrided
  5. undebriefed
  6. undebuggability
  7. undebuggable
  8. undebugged
  9. undebunked
  10. undebuted
  11. undec-

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