Re: How to write a self-referencial TM?

On 16/05/2025 16:57, Mike Terry wrote:
[I wrote:]

     Minsky's "Computation" has on its front cover [at least in the
Open University edition] and inside, as Fig. 7.2.9 on p142, a complete
UTM as a state-transition diagram. [...]

I found it on Amazon, and sure enough there on its front cover is
the state transition diagram!  It sounds like a great book, but
realistically I've already got too many books in my reading list...

It /is/ a great book.  Get* it, and re-order your reading
list to put it first.  The only other CS book that I couldn't put
down was the Algol 68 Revised Report.
   * Somewhat on the other hand, I see that it's $silly on Amazon
     and on Abe, so perhaps you should rather borrow it from a
     library.  In the UK, it was going to be an Open University
     set book, with therefore guaranteed sales of many thousands,
     But then the OU pulled out, the book was remaindered, and I
     got a brand new copy for £tiny.
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