A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo(seriot.ch) ncurses terminfo can simulate a two-counter Minsky machine, making repeated parameter expansion computationally universal |
A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo(seriot.ch) ncurses terminfo can simulate a two-counter Minsky machine, making repeated parameter expansion computationally universal |
These days though, terminals are all software. It would be very easy to just ask them. Instead we still insist on shipping a fixed terminfo or termcaps DB. As a consequence, every new terminal emulator is not in there, and so in order to give their users a tolerable experience, they all lie and say they're xterm-256color. Which completely removes any incentive to actually add them to terminfo/termcaps.
So we have this hellishly complex, nearly Turing complete compatibility system that does no useful work at all anymore.
In the era of LLMs articles such as these do nothing for me any more.
This article is mostly, if not entirely, LLM-generated. It’s done in a slightly less blatant way than most, but the tells are there, and pangram agrees.
But even if the article was human-written, I’d still not find it impressive now. There’s no way of telling a human was behind the discovery.