On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Chris McCormick wrote:

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• Turing Machine
• Lambda Calculus
• Game of Life

http://www.quinapalus.com/wi-index.html

Yes, this one is a nice one. :-]

Another thing I did not mention is that, out of the above models, the Lambda Calculus is the one that (in my opinion and looking at history) has the most potential as a programming paradigm. The only thing is that it's so minimalistic that it requires substantial additions to become usable.

However, there's one real-world language that very closely follows that model. It is called Haskell. Various languages follow more loosely Lambda. The author of LISP cites Lambda Calculus as a major influence, but LISP strays from it significantly.

And of course, Lambda Calculus is the reason for the name Lambda being a keyword in many languages such as Lisp, Scheme, Ruby, GNU ObjectiveC, and possibly several dozen more.

That kind of influence is not nearly matched by the other models, even WireWorld. AFAICT, WireWorld is still essentially a "toy", or a language designed to prove a point.

Still, WireWorld is something I'd like to look at more seriously some day =)

Thanks, and have a nice day.

Mathieu Bouchard -=- Montréal QC Canada -=- http://artengine.ca/matju