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

[wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>]

pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote in
news:bd0rq8$2b13$1@merope.saaf.se: 

 
> Likewise, the source text of any real programming language, as well as
> the binady code image of the compiled program, is static: without a
> CPU+OS to run that code, your program will do absolutely nothing.
>  
> The HTTP requests are to HTML what the CPU+OS are to the "real"
> program. 
> 

Here it is in short. HTML is a set of tag for a HTML coder for creating 
web-documents as a programming language is for creating programs. HTML is 
a computer language for hypertext documents. Programming language is for 
creating software aka "programs". The short definition: A program is a 
formulated set of intructions designed to instruct a computer to do a 
specified task.

The longer and more accurate definition is very definitive and will take 
alot of time to write. A web browser is a program. A word processor is a 
program. Image viewers is a program. Small games maybe programs depending 
if written in a programming language and often is. A person may be 
creative in the sequence of an HTML page to give the look and feel of the 
Tic-Tac-Toe game but it. A program is also a wide category and a 
programming language must be able to support a wide category of different 
types of programs. A programming language would have the basic features 
of handling data such as variable which is definitive features that makes 
up a programming language and is often a key component that makes some 
programs actually work. An accounting program requires user inputted  
data and being able to calculate and process the data. A programming 
language would need to have the features of data processing.