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> Turing completeness is notorious for showing up in systems unintentionally Greenspun's 10th law. https://wiki.c2.com/?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming https

• Dylan16807 8mo ago
  That's on the opposite end of the complexity spectrum.
  • lproven 8mo ago
    Perhaps so, but ISTM that it encapsulates the same basic point. Try to make something rich and general and you often end up re-implementing a whole computer inside your computer. Which is why these days it's easier in many cases to just embed an Arm core and implement your controller's functionality in software.
    • Dylan16807 8mo ago
      > Try to make something rich and general It's also easy to stumble into Turing completeness when you're just trying to let one setting modify another setting in a basic way.