Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

["Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>]

"wildstar" <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <bj_666@gmx.net> wrote in
> news:bdcl8u$rdkf2$1@fu-berlin.de:
>
> > In <3EF962CB.9070909@worrlldnet.att.net>, Richard Brady wrote:
> >
> >> Introduction to Computers and Data Processing by Shelley & Cashman,
> >> 1980: A program can be defined as a series of instructions which
> >> directs the coputer to perform a sequesce of tasks that produce a
> >> desired result. The Home Computer Handbook by Schlossberg, Brockman
> >> and Horton, 1978: program [is] a set of instructions arranged in a
> >> specific sequence for directing the execution of a specific task or
> >> the solution of a problem by a computer.
> >> Introduction to Computer Programming with the BASIC Language by
> >> Deitel, 1977: Computer programming is the process of instructing the
> >> computer to utilize its various mechanisms to solve specific
> >> problems.
> >>
> >> That said, it would appear that HTML is a programming language, which
> >> is used to program the computer display via an interpreter called a
> >> browser.  It does solve specific display problems.
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> To Randy:
> So Randy, your definition to programming language is the definition of
> computer languages not programming languages which is the short form of
> computer programming language. Do you understand this.
>
> It is a common mistake in dictionaries to interchangably use the
> definition of computer languages with computer programming language. You
> learn to drop the old meaning in the field. It is often a common mistake
> to interchange the meanings but it is really hard to describe it simple
> enough. A computer programming language is just category within computer
> languages. They are not the same thing. Randy,you keep insisting it is.
>
> I will make it short and clear. Only programmers truly know what it takes
> to define a program and a programming language. Also you have
> misinterpreted the meaning. There is a few implied stuff that is not
> really stated that is defining in a programming language.

In the past it was funny to watch an idiot spew huge amounts of text without
any comprehension, it is now just boring.  You have named strange tests for
being a computer programming language from requiring that you be able to
create an editor for graphics files to excluding any program that is a text
file.

I was probably programming while you were still in diapers.  I was luck in
that while some of my instructors were idiots most were not.  I feel sorry
for you in that one great lesson a professor explained to my class was 'what
a compiler was:  The program we wrote were the cards we held.  The program
was interprets the cards and gennerates another program.  We program
indirectly.  To program directly requires either switches or direct wiring.'
You obviously never had any one who knew their ass from a hole in the ground
to expain it to you.  I have programmed computers with such things as punch
cards, mag tape, switches,  ww pencil, etc.  What have you used?  Or have
you ever even written a program.

You continue to show your ignorance and it was humorus, now it is just sad.
Computer programming languages are just that languages for programming
computers.  Stop trying to add your definitions to something that is
defined.  If you don't want to believe something is a computer program that
is fine.  At least go back to school and find out what programsare, a
compiler is, etc.  To repeat a compiler is a computer program that takes
your text file and creates indirectly the program you desire, an assembler
is meant to show a one for one compilation but it to is an interpreter.  The
text file is a program just like the object file is a program (why do you
think they call them object files stupid).  If you want to try programming
without such interpreters I suggest you leard how to handle a WW pencil, or
a soldering iron.