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Is there a Turing-complete programming language for pen and paper? (feddit.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ki4jgt@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's say you wanted to use the mind as a calculator, and pen and paper as memory/registers/storage. Is there a programming language that works with pen and paper?

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Check out lambda calculus—it was created by Turing’s doctoral advisor in 1936, and thus predates real-world programming languages.

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