nonexecuting

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nonexecuting (not comparable)

(computing) Not executing; not running.
- 1998, David Hillel Gelernter, Machine beauty: elegance and the heart of technology:
  A nonexecuting program is the limp puppet without a hand, an empty shell. Slip a computer inside and it becomes a working software machine: an electric-powered information-transforming machine...
- 2003, Joyce Farrell, Java Programming:
  Program comments are nonexecuting statements that you add to a program for the purpose of documentation. Programmers use comments to leave notes for themselves and for others who might read their programs in the future.
(of a nation or state) Not carrying out executions; without capital punishment.
- 2008, Hugo M. Mialon, Paul H. Rubin, Economics, law and individual rights, page 403:
  Figure 17.1 Murder rates in executing and nonexecuting states.