[OT] Eternal programming
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 8 05:53:45 EDT 2001
"Roman Suzi" <rnd at onego.ru> wrote in message
news:mailman.994576272.19695.python-list at python.org...
...
> to include to the core. For example, if one want to do logic,
> there is only one operation needed (i do not know how to call it in
> English:
>
> X Y X/Y
> 0 0 1
> 1 0 1
> 0 1 1
> 1 1 0
It's usually called "nand" (short for Not-AND, I guess).
> I believe, that there is some set of operations which is as general as
> Turing machine BUT is easily evolutionable into something practical.
Sure, there must be plenty (infinitely many, I'd bet, offhand). But
I think the most practical one must be some subset of Scheme -- no
effort wasted on syntax... and quite practical as often demonstrated.
Alex
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