Turing Compliant?
Factory
faqtori at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 2 00:30:02 EDT 1999
In article <37CD7CBC.54AD295F at megsinet.net>, davidopp at megsinet.net
says...
> What the heck does Turing Compliant mean? I've heard discussion that
> Python is not Turing Compliant. Is this true and why would this be an
> important consideration for someone who is programming in Python?
Erm I'm sure I won't be the first person to reply to this, but Turing
Complete means that a system could be considered a superset of the Turing
machine. And all programming languages are turing complete, possibly with
the exception of JCL.. :)
So in these discussions, it's a bit of coder humour.
- Factory
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