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Wow that is one beautiful machine, and the documentation is beautiful too. Imagine if software could be this clearly illustrated, where one glance immediately g
by jfries 9y ago
Wow that is one beautiful machine, and the documentation is beautiful too.
Imagine if software could be this clearly illustrated, where one glance immediately gives full understanding of the interaction of a dozen parts.
- xxs 9y agoWhile probably possible, writing a Turing machine in code/software [incl. unit tests] is a trivial Saturday afternoon task. The amount of effort/cost is just orders of magnitude different.
- harperlee 9y agoYet understanding the state of the tape and what it represents gets increasingly difficult the more abstract you get. Running a non-trivial programme in a Turing machine is as hard to inspect as disassembling one in a standard computer. The complexity does not lie on the general computing platform, but in the interpretation that we derive from its state - and, as long as the platform is turing complete, by definition, we will end up running inescrutable programs (because we can!).
- cloop_floop 9y agoAh, so you've encountered jQuery.