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



"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
news:bd6931$158b$1@merope.saaf.se...
<snip>
> > As such it would require control of something.  Not all
> > programming languages contain strings at all, the one example is the
Eniac
> > it had a language with no strings at all (other than the copper
"strings"
> > (wires).
>
> FORTRAN didn't have strings either, up until FORTRAN IV.  In these
> FORTRAN versions, string manipulation was performed by putting the
> strings in NUMERICAL variables.....
<snip>

The "strings" referenced a post that you snipped.  The string were strings
of instructions.