Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming
Tom Wildenhain · 4 HN recommendations
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Tom Wildenhain's guest lecture for CMU's Esoteric Programming Languages course shows that PowerPoint transitions and slides are Turing complete without macros, building up to a mind-bending fractal ending.
Why HN recommends it: Repeatedly recommended in best-talks threads as a fun, mind-blowing demonstration of unexpected computation.
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