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does every program needs to be turing complete?
by gen_greyface 6y ago
does every program needs to be turing complete?
- jolux 6y agoOnly if you define programs as instructions for manipulating Turing machines.
- nxrabl 6y agoTo be pedantic, we can define a non-Turing-complete subset of a Turing machine's instruction set, and pass combinations of these instructions to the machine, and that could still be called a program.
- dangerbird2 6y agoNot really, since programmable machines predate real-world turing-complete computers by at least a century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine