{"id":3695,"date":"2012-06-23T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2013-01-20T19:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:36:52","slug":"happy-birthday-mr-turing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/06\/happy-birthday-mr-turing.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Mr. Turing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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It\u2019s Alan Turing\u2019s birthday! \u00a0Google has a nice outline of his life and work<\/a> for you to check out, and a ribbon-style Turing machine on the Google.com homepage<\/a> that lets you get an idea for how to do read\/write instructions. \u00a0(I got sloppy (I\u2019ve only got so much time in theis Starbucks) and accidentally programmed an infinite loop, but luckily Google made sure to include a break).<\/p>\n

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The definite highlight of my first CS class at college was finding out we would write a ribbon-style Turing machine (just like the one Google did\u00a0graphically) in Scheme. \u00a0Ok, second-best highlight. \u00a0The real <\/em>highlight was when it worked. \u00a0(Capering may have been involved, though I managed to restrain myself from calling my parents to boast until the sun had risen).<\/p>\n

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Of course, you don\u2019t have<\/em> to build your Turing machines from Lisp dialects (but I prefer to, as a lover of parentheses). \u00a0You can build them from Legos.<\/p>\n