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Ahh this is good. But what are ur-languages really? Can we tell when we have counted all of them? Is the collection determined more by the application domain (t
by nologic01 3y ago
Ahh this is good. But what are ur-languages really? Can we tell when we have counted all of them? Is the collection determined more by the application domain (the problems we think are important to solve) or the architecture of Von Neumann type computing)? E.g. I don't know much about quantum computing but I suppose there is an ur-language associated with it.
Whenever I see a taxonomy I itch for some underlying logic that unifies them. If the explanatory scheme is successful then you might actually convert the taxonomy into a tree, where the root is some property that all of them ur-languages share etc.
- nottorp 3y agoThey're more grouped by their main abstraction mode, not underlying hardware architecture. In theory you can emulate anything on something that's Turing complete, can't you? It will just be harder or easier. May not be worth the trouble. But still possible.