view release on metacpan or  search on metacpan

Changes  view on Meta::CPAN

Revision history for Perl extension Acme::Turing.

0.01  Wed Jan  8 11:40:11 2003
	- original version; created by h2xs 1.18

0.02  x
	- Minor revisions to POD.

Turing.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

  $machine->print_tape($L, $R);
  $machine->run();

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module gives you the methods needed to emulate a Turing machine
in Perl.

Why? Because we can.

This module is based on Turing's original paper (see REFERENCES),
which allows complete freedom in the actions to be taken
before the machine enters a new state. You can, of course,
impose restrictions if you wish, as John von Neumann's paper does.
This module allows the states to be designated by any alphanumeric
character string, and any non-blank alphanumeric data can be written
on the tape.

=head1 METHODS

The methods are listed below in the order you would be most likely