On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:42:31AM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> 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.
>
... like me (except I never majored in CS). A coin-operated vending
machine is the only state machine I pretend to understand, and mostly
when I'm flailing its sides and shouting at it.
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