Turing Machine Emulator as a BAIN Wizard

1. What?

This is a BAIN wizard for Wrye Bash that emulates a Turing machine, thereby proving my conjecture that the BAIN wizard minilang is Turing-complete.

2. Why?

Three reasons:

• An exercise for me to become more familiar with the BAIN wizard minilang, since I'm working on its interpreter.
• Curiosity - after looking through the implementation of its interpreter, I was fairly sure the language was Turing-complete. But I obviously can't know without building a Turing machine emulator (or formally proving it).
• To stress test the parser and interpreter. This wizard uses almost every feature of BAIN wizards except the ones that are commonly used. Really, the only uncommon feature that is unused here is Exec - and I did try to find a way to squeeze it in.

3. Usage

Have a look at the examples folder and its README. The basic gist is:

• Create a Wrye Bash package.
• Drop the wizard.txt file in.
• Follow the instructions in the wizard.txt file, creating some subpackages with peculiar names.
  • These names encode the state configurations for the Turing machine.
  • One special subpackages begins with I, this subpackage describes the initial tape.
• In Wrye Bash, right click on the package and click Wizard Installer... > Manual Wizard or Wizard Installer... > Auto Wizard if the startup message annoys you.

4. License

Licensed under MIT, see LICENSE. No idea why you would want to use this, but feel free.