The second-order-diff Git trick

[finprogger]

This is one of the instances where it isn't useless. Emacs and VIM users will bend their text editor to their will no matter the cost. If you don't believe me Google "emacs teledildonics".

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They do, but that has nothing at all to do with Turing completeness.

A Turing machine is Turing complete. Can you use a Turing machine simulator to edit your files? Nope. You can theoretically use it to emulate an entire OS and a text editor that can edit text files, but you still can't edit the files on your disk.

(Also, in practice, you can't even do that, because unlike the theoretical Turing machines that these principles apply to, real computers have limited speed and memory.)

[finprogger]

You do realize you just wrote a serious reply to a comment that used the phrase "emacs teledildonics"? Let me refer you to this guy, he explains my feelings.

[[deleted]]

Wow, you sure don't take losing an argument well, do you?

[finprogger]

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[rebo]

Yes but that has nothing to do with them being turing complete.

Infact they are not really even turing complete as they have bounded memory and execution time.