Re:Surprisingly Turing-Complete
by magicalhippo on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:09AM
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A good illustration of this is the linked TC regex[1], which can be implemented in Notepad++ or similar.
Just because you can hit "Replace all" a bunch of times to run the TC "regex code", transforming some input to some output, doesn't in itself mean you can make Notepad++ do something weird.
Just because you can hit "Replace all" a bunch of times to run the TC "regex code", transforming some input to some output, doesn't in itself mean you can make Notepad++ do something weird.
[1]: https://github.com/Tegmen/RegEx-Brainfuck-Interpreter