On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:31:22 -0700, r wrote: >> Since Python is Turing-complete, there's no reason a whole OS >> couldn't be authored in Python. > > Yes, and one could go from NY to LA on a unicycle but would one really > want to? Talk about some redass and blueballs! *yikes* > > Yes, if i have learned anything in my life, i can say there are > absolutely no boundaries to what humans can achieve short the limit of > their own imagination and the ever fading remainder of ones life.
Well, other than writing a program to determine whether a program in a Turing-complete language will terminate on some input, or devising a formal system which is sound, complete, and able to express its own metatheory, or ... Some things are actually impossible. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
