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Article #2552Re: Look ... [or: one, two, three, many]
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 04:32
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 04:32
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In article <23986:Dec2703:47:1390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>I'd also like to point out that real-world programmers really don't care
>whether a solution is part of ``the intrisic expressiveness'' of a
>language as long as it is ``programmable in it.''
You mean real-world programmers would be happy if we replaced Fortran,
Pascal, C, and Lisp with raw Turing Machines? Any solution is programmable
in a TM, but we prefer higher-level languages because it is easier to
express most solutions in them.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Look ... [or: one, two, three, many] Message-ID: <1990Dec27.043209.7131@Think.COM> Date: 27 Dec 90 04:32:09 GMT References: <21126:Dec2614:38:2890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <19418@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <23986:Dec2703:47:1390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 14