On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:29:16 +0100, "Tom Melly"
<pov### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:

>What is the minimum required for a fully-functional programming language?
>(i.e. one in which, theoretically, you could perform any calculation).
>

If I understand your question, I think you mean a 
"turing complete" language.  If you google using that
term you can probably get a formal definition.

>iirc machine code seems to get by purely on 'ifs' and assignments - would in
>theory a language be functional that only had these two functions (and
>presumably the ability to loop over the whole code, but not individual
>sections of it).
>

Google "oisc" or "one instruction set computer".  Interesting
results.


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