Re: [stack] S-K Construction of Dip?

On 9/3/07 4:42 PM, "John Cowan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Manfred Von Thun scripsit:
> 
>> > We have: nested source language, flat target language. Price: extra
>> > instructions in the target language, plus new concept.
> 
> Actually, we can do without them.  The machine whose sole instruction
> is "subtract 1 from data item D, and if it is now zero, jump to
> instruction J, otherwise continue" is known to be Turing-complete.
> Of course you end up using a lot of them.

So, are we hoping for a single instruction flat concatenative language?


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