The thing about the halting problem, though, is that it doesn't say "You can't write a program that can determine if another program will terminate". It says "You can't write a program that can determine if any other program will terminate."

Case in point: Resharper will tell me "This function never returns" in cases where it obviously wont return, and also offer to simplify methods that only ever return a single value despite what looks like a complex set of if-statements.

So, if it is possible to write a program to determine if a specific subset of all possible programs will terminate, is it possible to write a program that can generate a subset of all possible programs from a specific subset of all possible specifications?

I can't be perfect. But might it be useful?