4 ms·
> Also, there is no "program" here, in the same way that coding HTML is not programming, as vector graphics are not supposed to be Turing complete. And where th
by tines 2y ago
> Also, there is no "program" here, in the same way that coding HTML is not programming, as vector graphics are not supposed to be Turing complete. And where they pulled the "symbolic" from is completely beyond me.
Aren't HTML and vector graphics descriptions both data structures that could be interpreted via a Turing-complete interpreter? I don't see the difference between HTML and a C AST in this regard.
- jlarocco 2y agoThere's a slippery slope there. Is a Word document a program? Is a PNG file? A computer program is a data structure, but data structures are not necessarily computer programs.
- tines 2y agoTrue, I suppose HTML the better example, it's a tree description language, whereas PNG files, Word documents, etc. aren't.
- justsomehnguy 2y ago> . Is a Word document a program? Even if not there is always an OLE embedding.