Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <mR6Ia.45174$fh7.404@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
Sam Gillett <samgillett@msn.com> wrote:
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>Matthew Russotto wrote ...
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>>How about this one:  If it ain't Turing complete, it's not a computer
>>programming language.
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>To expand on your logic:
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>Turing committed suicide at the age of 41.  So it isn't a computer
>programming language if it doesn't self-destruct.  Which correlates to, it
>isn't a computer program if it doesn't crash.

Unfortunately in practice, this eliminates very few :-)
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
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