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Would Minecraft redstone count as a fungeoid language?
by msgwart 3y ago
Would Minecraft redstone count as a fungeoid language?
- K0balt 3y agoI think it would.
- jerf 3y agoNo, it has no concept of an instruction pointer. Closest match I can find on that site is a Bully automaton: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bully_automaton https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bully_automaton which is an extension of the more well-known cellular automata, except cells can reach out into other cells and "do things" to those other cells. I think this particularly because of the pistons in Minecraft, and the whole related functionality with slime/honey that means in Minecraft you don't just have the ability to set up cellular automata, but you have the ability to move the automata themselves around in the grid space. Minecraft qua Minecraft doesn't seem to have an entry in that wiki but I'd call it an esolang of its own. The wiki does mention redstone ( https://esolangs.org/wiki/Redstone https://esolangs.org/wiki/Redstone ) but the context of the text implies they're thinking in terms of gates and implementing conventional logic in it; I'd say redstone contraptions are simply themselves an esolang without having to build gates or anything else recognizable. It just happens to be embedded in a grid space that has a very wide variety of other inputs and outputs of interest to humans, unlike most abstract cellular automata grids.