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echo: rberrypi
to: MAYAYANA
from: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
date: 2019-02-25 17:58:00
subject: Re: C is not a low level

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:10:17 -0500
"Mayayana"  wrote:

> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote
>
> | CSS no (it is only Turing complete with a human being in the loop),
> | AutoIt never heard of it, AppleScript yes.
> |
> | Read about Turing Completeness, then answer the questions yourself.
> |
>
>   That's one way to look at it, but you completely
> missed the points I was making. By your definition
> an abacus is a programming language. So what?

 Nope, an abacus does nothing without a human being. Turing
completeness has been the effective definition of a programming language
for longer than I have been in the business.

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