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  Re: WTF programming language of the day  
From: Invisible
Date: 10 Nov 2010 04:36:57
Message: <4cda67b9@news.povray.org>
On 09/11/2010 05:41 PM, nemesis wrote:

> guess that's a far more math-geared language than haskell... ;)

For suitable definition of "math-geared".

Apparently a suitable system of Diophantine equations is 
Turing-complete. (See Hilbert's tenth problem.)

Many other innocuous-looking things are Turing-complete as well. 
Cellular automata and term-rewrite systems immediately spring to mind.


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