From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,587e0e0a16d65b10 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!f11g2000vbf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Invade wikipedia! Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:33:06 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1bae178f-8c50-4298-8250-79d41e9c0a9d@f11g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> References: <49a415c4$0$32675$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <08cbf95f-1a72-4a93-8c21-55b1411b6608@j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <49a47c51$0$30227$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <49a5e7d4$0$31337$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.66.190.154 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235619187 9783 127.0.0.1 (26 Feb 2009 03:33:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:33:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f11g2000vbf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.66.190.154; posting-account=vrfdLAoAAAAauX_3XwyXEwXCWN3A1l8D User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; fr),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4781 Date: 2009-02-25T19:33:06-08:00 List-Id: On 26 f=E9v, 01:52, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne) wrote: > >>> If this kind of pseudo code was suffiscient to really and precisely > >>> express algorithms, it would be a real language. > >> Pseudo code of the kind in question is a real language. > >> By analogy, no one writes Turing machine programs in > >> commercial applications[***]. Still, his fictional(!) > >> machine is entirely programmed using "pseudo code"[****]. > >> A Turing machine is defined precisely and > >> its languages are real programming languages. > > When I read you, I'm thinking about something like LISP. Is that Ok if > > got this image in mind ? > > The gist of it is that there is a sufficiently small > and simple language and machine model to work with. I like this abstract very much. Thanks for this sentence.