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PDFs are not Turing complete (PostScript is).
by gpvos 7y ago
PDFs are not Turing complete (PostScript is).
- BuildTheRobots 7y agoI knew about postcript (who doesn't lock up office printers by rendering mandlebrot sents?) but was absolutely convinced PDFs were as well. They're not and it seems they quite deliberately weren't as well. [1] - thanks for setting me straight :) [1] https://www.cs.odu.edu/~zeil/cs390/latest/Public/turing-complete/index.html https://www.cs.odu.edu/~zeil/cs390/latest/Public/turing-comp...
- gpvos 7y agoActually, you can have Javascript in PDF nowadays, so...