I was just at a Thing where a colleague from another department said "This is Edwin, he's a computer scientist. He invented the Whitespace language." I think I'm okay with this. If I'm out when the Turing Award arrives I'm sure a neighbour will collect it for me.
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Replying to @edwinbrady
Whitespace is one of those two-in-one learning experiences: 1) What's required to express computability is *small* 2) The computing power of a language has *nothing* to do with its readability It's an important reductio ad absurdum en route to enlightenment.
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Replying to @tom_a_r_johnson
I like to use it as support for my (and others...) claim that Turing Completeness is Overrated :).
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Replying to @tom_a_r_johnson
Well it's Turing Complete but not Pacman Complete...
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