Talk:AlphaBeta

I would like someone to test if this language is Turing Complete or find out what computional class it is in. Thanks. --Voxel 23:31, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a bounded-storage machine (and therefore sub-TC). You have arbitrary effect at an arbitrary point (pretty trivially), no limit on control flow complexity, but you only have a finite amount of memory in any given program. --ais523 11:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Wait, ignoring the total 1kb ram restriction, who's saying the registers are otherwise bounded? It could be as powerful as a Minsky machine. --Ørjan 13:17, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Erm, and it also has an addressable memory. --Ørjan 13:20, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I would tend to take the claim that registers "hold an integer" on face value -- a mathematical integer, without bounds, approximated in the implementation with a machine "integer" of some size. So yeah, a Minsky machine reduction is very likely possible. Chris Pressey (talk) 18:08, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

What would happen if I made it so the memory is unbounded? I only made it have 1kb because the language that I built the first interpreter for had a max array size of 32000 and I didn't see it as needed at the time. --Voxel 21:57, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

The "q" command is present twice in the C++ implementation. The author didn't use "else if", so I think there will be a bug. Maxdefolsch (talk) 14:35, 30 October 2012 (UTC)