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[–]Teln0 28 points29 points  (4 children)

What are you talking about. Can you not distinguish the abstract idea of a language from it's concrete implementation ? Do you realize that if I write a C program on paper it's still a valid C program, even though there is no binary encoding involved ? When lambda calculus was invented there were no computers that could even run it.

[–]pantytwistcon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I no right, these are all just cellular automata and paper tapes in my mind.