logoalt Hacker News

layer8 • today at 5:48 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I mean, fonts are Turing-complete [0], so it isn’t surprising that this is possible. Turing-completeness is often by accident rather than by genius [1].

[0] https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness#Unintentio...


Replies

roughly • today at 6:24 PM

Which makes sense, because human language is apparently Turing complete, so anything intended to represent it faithfully would wind up with that characteristic, too.

➕ show 2 replies