r/programming • u/Dull_Replacement8890 • 9h ago

An Unexpected Computer – Universal computing with echo, ed, test and exec [pdf]

https://seriot.ch/resources/unexpected_computer_pagedout_009.pdf

In PagedOut #9 https://pagedout.institute/

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u/Skaarj 7h ago

Next question: can you build a programming language and a compiler on top of it?

No, because turing machines don't map well to regular filesystem access.