From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Pointer function parameter
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:40:50 GMT
Date: 2000-10-31T12:40:50+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m5zL5.1064$pq3.76430@news.flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8tl8dv$ldu$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert, we've really got to chip in and get you a new newsreader :)
In addition to the occasional double-post, it also seems to have trouble
keeping the attributions straight. I didn't say any of the text below.
"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8tl8dv$ldu$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
: In article <87d7gikvnd.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>,
: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
: > "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> writes:
: >
: > > : Oh, one last thing: a TM cannot "exist". (Does that fall
: under your
: > > : definition of "do ANYTHING"?) A TM has an infinitely long
: tape, whereas
: > > : we can only build machines with finite memories.
:
: It is not true that a TM has an infinitely long tape (that's
: a meaningless idea really), it has a sufficiently long tape.
:
: And yes, we can build such a machine, we just keep building
: more and more tape as it is needed :-)
:
: That way we can keep the TM computing for as long as we like.
:
:
: Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
: Before you buy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-31 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-19 0:00 Pointer function parameter Mario Amado Alves
2000-10-19 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-19 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-10-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Alejandro Villanueva
2000-10-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-24 0:00 ` Alejandro Villanueva
2000-10-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-24 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-10-24 22:32 ` Mats Weber
2000-10-30 15:24 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-30 15:44 ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-30 18:53 ` Florian Weimer
2000-10-31 1:48 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-31 12:40 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2000-10-31 14:08 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-01 17:59 ` Mats Weber
2000-11-03 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-04 0:00 ` RAM size, was " tmoran
2000-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-10-16 0:00 Mary
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-10-17 0:00 ` Mario Amado Alves
2000-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-18 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-10-17 0:00 ` tmoran
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