Talk:2KWLang

Are the Unicode double quotes (“” as opposed to "") part of the syntax, or are they unintentional? LegionMammal978 (talk) 13:13, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

They were unintentional. I will fix that. PythonshellDebugwindow (talk) 14:55, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Computational class

A 1-register minsky machine program can be simulated:

start with: import 0
increment: + 1
decrement and check if 0: put the entire thing so far in parenthesis and type:
  == 0 ? (jump1) : (jump2)
multiply by constant: * (constant)
divide by constant: put the entire thing so far in parenthesis and type:
  % (constant) == 0 ? (jump1) : (jump2)
Jump1 should start with the operation, decrementing or division

The major problem with this approach is that expression data will not be carried over to the jumped file. But you could write the entire expression again inside of a print statement and ask the user to reinput that number if that counts. (You would also need input to detect numerics and put them in as numbers for that to work.)

Long story short: If user interaction is allowed to be used for Turing-completeness, and numerical input is available, then 2KWLang is Turing-complete. Otherwise, 2KWLang loses all data whenever looping is used, and cannot emulate all finite-state automata.

BoundedBeans (talk) 02:51, 27 August 2022 (UTC)