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> > You are suggesting that the statements "XSL is turing complete" and > > "An XSL processor can be written in XSL" are equivalent. Another > > interesting assertion, can you prove or justify it? > > I am not a computer scientist, but isn't that the point of the theory > of Turing completeness? If an XSL processor can be written in one > Turing-complete language, one can be written in any Turing-complete > language. If that's true, then "X is Turing-complete" and "An XSL > processor can be written in X" are equivalent. No? > No. Certainly "X is Turing complete" implies "An XSL processor can be written in X". The original proposition was: "An XSL processor can be written in X" implies "X is Turing complete". Mike XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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