Turing Is the Problem, Not the Solution

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This guy is tilting at windmills.

Turing did not have "ideas" about the limits of computation but a mathematical proof.

Bitch all you want - but you first of all need to understand what the man was on about - then maybe you can chip away at a few edge cases.

Why put up this strawman? There is nothing in the article about either the limits of computation or a mathematical proof. Pretty much all it says is that the Turing sequential (or algorithmic) conmputing model is inadequate and I agree. We need a better model.

Not sure about the straw. Running a process on a multi-core machine just makes it go faster. We have always had speed improvements - this is just the latest way of achieving them. While running multiple parallel processes is going to be an interesting challenge for us programmers it is not going to change the fundamentals one jot.

You're kidding me? The computing world is about to witness the most drastic paradigm shift in its history. After all is said and done, the threaded or sequential process programming model will not only be superseded, we will kick ourselves in the ass for having been so stupid for so long.

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