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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kain40k on May 08, 2003, 09:54:35 pm

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Kain40k on May 08, 2003, 09:54:35 pm

Hey, I'm in highschool taking computer engineering and we're learning how to program in Turing. I have some ideas for things I'd like to do but I don't have a compiler, anyone know where I could pick one up for Turing?

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Bobboau on May 08, 2003, 09:59:29 pm

Turing? assuming this is the name of the language, no, I have never even heard of it.
try google

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Kain40k on May 08, 2003, 10:00:30 pm

okay, yes Turing is the name of the language. And I've checked google, a lot of dead ends

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 08, 2003, 10:19:39 pm

http://www.holtsoft.com/turing/tech/comp_interp.html

Click. Read. Comprehend. If you have the program, you have the compiler.

Also, it was the first link in the Google search.

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Kain40k on May 08, 2003, 10:29:59 pm

I've been there. Perhaps I should mention that I also plan to distribute some of my creations to those around me. I would've that that'd be assumed, but whatever. I'm not all that crazy about hanging out the software I use to write it as well to each and every person. I want to create an .exe to make it all that much more easy for others, okay?

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Kamikaze on May 08, 2003, 11:36:51 pm

that language connected in some way to alan turing and turing machines? or is it just one of those random ha><0r naming quirks?

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Kain40k on May 09, 2003, 06:21:18 pm

We did a huge history of computers at the begining of the semester, but I can't remember all the details. I don't think Alan turing invented the language, but he was definately the idea man behind it. He thought of the idea of the Turing test, which is essentially a way to measure how far computers have progressed.

here's a biography: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Turing.html

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: an0n on May 09, 2003, 09:27:36 pm

Go learn a real language. Like Assembly, COBOL, FORTRAN or mIRC-Script.

:nervous:

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 09, 2003, 09:40:35 pm

:lol:

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Bobboau on May 09, 2003, 09:45:04 pm

or at the least C(++), or VB even

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: an0n on May 09, 2003, 09:51:37 pm

****, even......err........HTML would be better.

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Kain40k on May 10, 2003, 10:55:52 am

:lol:

I already know a bit of html and C++, and I'm going to learn C++ in more detail later. I'm taking a class next year which is entirely programing in Turing. If only they used C++ I'd be set, but they don't so I gotta get used to Turing for the moment

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Tiara on May 10, 2003, 11:33:29 am

Quote

Originally posted by an0n
mIRC-Script.

Well, you made a very... errr... nice script last time ;7

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: an0n on May 10, 2003, 05:16:03 pm

Yeah. I'm evil. But in a clever, pointless kinda way.

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: Kamikaze on May 10, 2003, 05:58:01 pm

wow I'm the first person to even mention java....

Title: Programming anyone?
Post by: an0n on May 10, 2003, 06:29:21 pm

And you're proud of that fact?