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in reply to Re^4: Worst blog post ever on teaching programming
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There's no sense of the word in which I can find it meaningful to claim one has "implemented" a Turing machine; it's a thought experiment, not a device you can actually build.

A thought experiment? You mean like Schrödinger's half-dead cat in a box?

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