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Re:A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find... by dTal on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:38AM (#30426640)
It is so, trivially; humans wrote the find/replace box in Notepad++.
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Re:A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find... by teawrecks on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:16PM (#30431345)
I mean, I can write a FSM that outputs the code for find/replace in Notepad++.
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Re:A functioning Turing Machine using Notepad++ and its find... by sudosysgen on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:37PM (#30435420)
Yeah, but you can't write an FSM that can execute itself repeatedly over its own output indefinitely!
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