Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming
4 人推荐 · 跨 4 个月 · 2020–2026
中文导读
Tom Wildenhain 在 CMU 奇趣编程语言课上的特邀演讲。他证明了不用任何宏，仅靠 PowerPoint 的幻灯片切换和动画就具备图灵完备性，最后还演变出了令人脑洞大开的分形系统。
为什么 HN 推它
HN 各类年度最佳演讲帖中的高频推荐，趣味横生且让人拍案叫绝的硬核脑洞展示。
「强烈推荐！」HN 网友原话：Strong recommend!
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
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.
Repeatedly recommended in best-talks threads as a fun, mind-blowing demonstration of unexpected computation.
HN 上的提及
Recording of a guest lecture he gave for the Esoteric Programming Languages course at CMU.
Strong recommend!
Really fun, kinda blew my mind.
He does not use VBA macros, just shows that PowerPoint transitions and slides are Turing Complete.
demonstrates how this feature interacts with the enormous existing PowerPoint feature set in interesting ways.