SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Wed Aug 22 13:32:23 2001

It was thus said that the Great McFadden, Mike once stated:
>
> Here we go with the language discussion.
> First I put on the flameproof suit, insert ear plugs, cover eyes with
> antiflash goggles, and place flack vest on front and back.
> Are any of the following a computer language?
>
> IBM JCL
> IBM assembler
> DCL
> SPSS
> SAS
> BMDP
> C
> Datatrieve
> HPGL

  If they're Turing Complete (basically, can you implement a Turing
Machine?) then they're computer languages. TECO and vi are Turing Complete
and therefore, technically computer languages (although you'd have to be one
sick puppy to actually write a program in TECO or vi 8-)

  -spc (HTML is NOT Turing Complete ... )
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 13:32:23 BST