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Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by DigitalJack on Monday December 19, 2016 @03:05PM (#13214568)
I am naive when it comes to computation science, but doesn't the turing completeness of someting essentially mean you are not constrained? Perhaps constrained in efficiency, but not outcome.
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Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by adwn on Monday December 19, 2016 @03:54PM (#13214888)
As soon as you target an actual user doing stuff on an actual computer, there will always be constraints due to efficiency and performance. You might not run into them, because your program is sufficiently small and the hardware sufficiently fast, but they're always there.
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Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by jononor on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:05AM (#13218874)
Constraints which are not hit are not very constraining...
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