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

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

"White Flame (aka David Holz)" <whiteflame52@y.a.h.o.o.com> wrote in message
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> "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > That's the problem with trying to pound down a definition to hard.
> >
> > I have yet to find a definition of a programming language better than a
> > language used to program a computer.  One person posted two references
> about
> > computer programming languages, but all they did was name a couple of
> > languages and stated the languages are broken into different gl classes,
> but
> > no definition of what a language must contain to be a language.
> >
> > I have seen people argue about needing to have the ability to write a
> > program that modify graphics to be a programming language.  What states
> must
> > be available, etc.  I have yet to see any evidence showing more than the
> > dictionary definition.
>
> Did you read my longer post?  I basically said that a computer programming
> language should be able to control the computer in the general case.  HTML
> only hints HTML viewers on how to display certain blocks of data, and thus
> can't control the general capacities of a computer.  HTML can be
considered
> a language that programs HTML viewers with such data, but not a computer
> programming language.  It does not program computers, only a small subset
of
> applications.
>
> However, you seem to be using "programming", "programming language",
> "computer language", and "computer programming language" fairly
> interchangeably, which destroys any attempt at you trying to get a
concrete
> definition for any of the 4 technically separate things.  Similarly, in
the
> context of dealing with software engineers and other computer people,
> "computer programming language" is usually shortened to simply
"programming
> language", etc, but the implied context carries with it the full
> specification of "computer programming language".
>
> --
> White Flame (aka David Holz)
> http://www.white-flame.com/
> (spamblock in effect)

Yes I read your post, all I saw was your opinion without any references to
back them up.  Do you expect anyone to accept your opinion over the
published works of internationally accepted authorities?  A dictionary may
not be much, but at least it is a recognized authority.  If you have an
authority we can lookup I will not be happy, but I will acknowledge it.