| David Kastrup 2007-10-26, 8:04 am |
| CJ <nospam@nospam.com> writes:
> On 26 Oct 2007 at 9:04, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> You completely underestimate what can be done in TeX. It's actually
> Turing complete.
Is there a particular reason you elided all the detailed explanation I
give? First: I am one of the most renowned TeX hackers in the field,
so don't try telling me that I don't know what I am talking about. In
particular after cutting away everything where I _am_ talking about
it.
Secondly: only a complete idiot or somebody without any serious
programming experience confuses "excellent programming language" with
"Turing complete". "Turing complete" is a statement about what kind
of programs a computer can handle in principle, without any
considerations of available actual resources such as CPU power or
memory. "excellent programming language" is a statement about what
kind of programs a programmer can handle, with a lot of consideration
to available actual resources such as concentration, code density,
naturality of expression and so on.
--
David Kastrup
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