[PD] Pd *is* a programming language!

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> I read two Wikipedia articles, and I still have no idea what this means.
> One could conceivably run Linux under Pd?  Or the internet?  wild.

Computability doesn't usually count input/output. The internet and pd are 
two examples of things relying heavily on input/output... except that you 
can also use pd without input/output.

The concept is that for any solvable problem you can write a program for 
it and the data together in an array large enough and let the "Turing 
machine" (or other equivalent thing) process it. Then it will stop and the 
result will be what you wanted.

The input/output issue is another pair of socks. Most computability 
theoricians are so busy thinking about impossible situations, that they 
can't even think of input/output, of pd and the internet.

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