From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2008-05-11T16:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: The Turing Machine (#162)

On May 10, 10:20 pm, Matthew Moss <matthew.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just so you guys know, I have no intentions of starting Turning
> Machine Quiz. I have enough work to do as it is writing summaries for
> Ruby Quiz, and I *really* don't want to read a bunch of turing machine
> code.
>
> :)   Just kidding...
>
> (No I'm not. ;)

Too bad.  I've started on a DSL for creating Turing machine code.  I
just generated a 1,568 line program to reverse a lowercase word.

  $ ./tm rev.tm ruby
  ybur
  $ ./tm rev.tm turing
  gnirut
  $ ./tm rev.tm racecar
  racecar
  $ time ./tm rev.tm abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
  zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba
  0.84s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.857 total

http://pastie.textmate.org/195072

Chris