What
is the problem, then? Why have not
these advantages materialized
yet in a more apparent manner?
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Fundamental
inadequacy of the (conventional) string representation
Take a
string:
afdbaaccbdfaddbbcacbffacda
=> no temporal
information is represented in it
(i.e. how the string was “formed”)
=>
exponentially many candidate operations to consider that could have been involved in the generation of the string