Talk:Turing (programming language)

Article Expansion Suggestions

Though there may be mixed feelings about this programming language, I feel it deserves a more detailed article. I'm first thinking I'd like to add some details as to why it is a suitable language for teaching programming (easily used graphic procedures, very little preparation time, etc.) Before I add a whole new heading, I'd just like to give anyone else who may be watching this page a chance to make suggestions. Balrog30 06:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I removed most of the examples except for the factorial one. I don't know what they're supposed to demonstrate other than someone's grade 10 CS homework, if someone seriously wants to show off Turing's capabilities, they ought to do it properly. I left the factorial function just so people can see some syntax, it's kind of standard fare as an example.

Turing, while hard to understand is quite fun once you get the hang of it.

--> Turing is not hard at all. Turing is a very easy language to learn, just that it is not as powerful as other programming languages, such as C++ and Java.

Actually, it has exactly the same power as C++ and Java, i.e. it allows you to compute anything that is Turing Computable.

That's a ridiculous assertion, you can build a Turing machine with ticker tape and a pencil. If language A performs tasks faster than language B, language A is more powerful than B. If language A offers more flexibility than language B, language A is more powerful than language B. Turing has neither the speed of C++, the compactness of C nor the functional capabilities of Ruby.

If by fun you mean the biggest waste of time in my entire highschool career (worse than grade 9 gym!).

Sounds like a problem in the writer rather than in the language!

This language feels really slow compared to other, more popular ones but it's very easy to get into.

Disambiguation Page Needed

Don't have time to do it myself at the moment but needed please! Thanks BananaManCanDance (talk) 19:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)