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lproven | 5 days ago

> Turing completeness is notorious for showing up in systems unintentionally

Greenspun's 10th law.

https://wiki.c2.com/?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming

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Dylan16807|5 days ago

That's on the opposite end of the complexity spectrum.

lproven|4 days ago

Perhaps so, but ISTM that it encapsulates the same basic point. Try to make something rich and general and you often end up re-implementing a whole computer inside your computer.

Which is why these days it's easier in many cases to just embed an Arm core and implement your controller's functionality in software.