begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 09:04:15AM -0700: > > But we never > > think of it as imitating another machine. We don't usually imagine > > that there's another machine out there that this Turing machine is > > pretending to be for the moment. ImageMagick is a "program", not a > > "machine". > > But this just points out the difference between general Turing > machines and *Universal* Turing machines (UTMs). People think > about UTMs all the time.
Really? Most people don't. Most programmers don't. Hell, *state machines* give a lot of CS majors headaches. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
