Turing Compliant?

Paul Prescod paul at prescod.net
Sat Sep 4 19:11:03 EDT 1999


C.Laurence Gonsalves wrote:
> 
> Actually, there are programming languages that are not Turing complete.

I claim that Turing completeness is the only useful (or at least
quasi-useful) definition of programming language that we have. If we
accept that a programming language could be non-complete then how do we
fend off the Barbarians that call HTML a programming language?

 Paul Prescod




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