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by 082349872349872 752 days ago
Given that von Neumann had his name lent to "von Neumann regular" elements and rings (exercise: what, if any, is the relation to "regular expression"?), I suspect he could've come up with an algorithm notation that was both (a) exceedingly well suited to expressing FSM implementations, yet (b) inscrutable to all of us who grew up with assembly as a lingua franca.