On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 19:11:07 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>I'm confident also that a Turing machine
>>could be emulated in COBOL.
>
>Trivially, subject to storage constraints.

Why single out COBOL to mention storage constraints?  COBOL does have a
few KB of fixed overhead per program, but it's hardly the memory hog that
many assume that it is.

Tom Marchant

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Reply via email to