[Jprogramming] Sequential Machine

[Ian Clark]

I'd say any publicity for practical uses of (;:) is good. Even if only
because it's Alan Turing's 100th anniversary (celebrated this week by
Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue.html)

APL's "world-in-a-primitive" is Domino ⌹ (%.) --hailed as the jewel in
its crown. I was once offered the tapes of the keystroke log of a
sizeable IBM APL-coding shop for research. In about 5 years, Domino
had been used precisely twice. On both occasions as the fill char in a
histogram.

I guess an APL counterpart of (;:) would have suffered the same fate.
Not many people know how to program a Turing Machine nowadays. (But it
has a great future in biocomputing.)

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:57 PM, David Ward Lambert
<b49P23TIvg at stny.rr.com> wrote:
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>> From: Don Guinn <donguinn at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Jprogramming] Sequential Machine
>> To: Programming forum <programming at jsoftware.com>
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> I finally decided to "master" sequential machine.  The report of my
> experience is posted in the new vocabulary page
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/semico
>
> nuvoc
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/ControlNuVoc
>
> As always, please enhance, rewrite, whatnot at your will.
> Is a sequential machine tutorial useful at the
> Jsoftware Conference - 23/24 July 2012 - Toronto ?
>
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