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Re: Today's Wild Idea

From Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Today's Wild Idea
Date 2011-07-10 02:01 -0700
Organization Canadian Mind Products
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:38:41 -0700 (PDT), Joe Snodgrass
<joe.snod@yahoo.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>A compiler that produces code to run on a Turing machine.  *That*
>would get your name in the paper!

Not much use though. If you wanted to tackle such a project, you might
try a Q machine first, a arbitrary number of pits each of which can
contain an arbitrary number of stones.  You don't have to create the
concept of number. It is a primitive.

see http://mindprod.com/project/lovelace.html
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
One thing I love about having a website, is that when I complain about
something, I only have to do it once. It saves me endless hours of grumbling.

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Today's Wild Idea Joe Snodgrass <joe.snod@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-10 01:38 -0700
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