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by thomk 2064 days ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30719221/is-html-turing-...
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does every program needs to be turing complete?
Not really, since programmable machines predate real-world turing-complete computers by at least a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine

Only if you define programs as instructions for manipulating Turing machines.
To be pedantic, we can define a non-Turing-complete subset of a Turing machine's instruction set, and pass combinations of these instructions to the machine, and that could still be called a program.