21 Aug
2008
21 Aug
'08
6:04 p.m.
Well, if you consider tex/latex and postscript to be a word processor,
they probably count, although I haven't seen a proof in either case...
http://www.westnet.com/mirrors/99bottles/beer_s_z.html#latex
http://www.westnet.com/mirrors/99bottles/beer_n_r.html#postscript
(*watch out there's a pascal version in between the two postscript
versions).
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/~korpela/ahl/others.html#postscript
It's a hard benchmark to time because the execution finishes before
the page starts being drawn. I keep waiting for someone to port
ghostscript to postscript.
It's also possible some word processors have Turing complete macro languages.
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:41 PM, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
<bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
It seems silly to write your Ph.D. exams in a
word processor that isn't Turing complete.
only for CS :-)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com