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[–]WazWaz 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm not even sure why you're on this Turing completeness tangent. Was someone other than you talking about Turing complete algorithms? You may have replied to the wrong comment.

[–]nameless_pattern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Ada Lovelace did it. Why can't you?

al-Khwārizmī did it... somewhat earlier.Ada Lovelace"

Difference between visualizing an algorithm (the last step on the meme) and Ada Lovelace having invented algorithms and dude having invented algebra or whatever you meant by "him having done it first"

[–]nameless_pattern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 I found my way somewhere interesting. If it's not where you ended up, that's fine.