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Charles petzold born february 2, 1953 is an american programmer and technical author on microsoft windows applications. The turing machine is an imaginary not even quite hypothetical computer invented in 1936 by english mathematician alan turing 19121954 to help solve a question in mathematical logic. A guided tour through alan turings historic paper on computability and the turing machine paperback jun 16 2008. Charles petzold, computer programming legend and author of the highly acclaimed book code. The hidden language of computer hardware and software developer best practices.
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