10 May
2010
10 May
'10
1:27 p.m.
From: spectre at floodgap.com
Subject: Re: Lisa C and Lisa FORTRAN
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:13:47 -0700
Another good example of a nonstandard programming language - Postscript
In his column in the Radio Electronics mag, Don Lancaster (TTL Cookbook) was always able
to make it do amazing things.
He has put a bunch of this up on his website:
http://www.tinaja.com/post01.asp
Randy Dawson
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Another example would be TeX and/or Metafont.
When used in the normal way
I would n't claim it was 'programming. But both are in fact complete
programming languages It is techncially possible (although very
inefficient) to do anything computable using them. At which point I would
claim you were programming.
Conclusion: HTML is not Turing-complete.
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