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pjfin123 on Oct 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Text Is the Universal Interface

Almost anything can be modeled as a translation of one sequence of character to another sequence of text characters.

defterGoose on Oct 6, 2022 | [–]

Well, you've basically just defined a Turing machine, so...yeah, anything computable.

andirk on Oct 5, 2022 | [–]

Down to right before machine code, isn't it all just strings of characters aka strings of bytes aka strings representing assembly commands and values?

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