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Old Aug 4th, 2006, 7:50 PM   #19
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Just to nitpick, it's certainly not true that any Turing-complete language can emulate any other. Any Turing-complete language can compute anything that can be computed by any other Turing-complete language, but that doesn't mean that they are likewise equivalent in areas not related to computation. For example, it's impossible to write a graphical program in standard C++ (all graphics libraries for C++ are non-standard extensions) while it's trivial to do in Visual Basic. Both languages are Turing-complete.
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