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

["Really" <barryem@yahoo.com>]

"Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:09:30 -0500, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
>
> There are no fundamental differences between a compiler and an
> interpreter; it is possible to write a BASIC compiler, and it is
> possible to write a C or C++ interpreter.

I have BASIC compilers and a C interpreter (quincy).  This has no
real bearing on the argument.

My definition says machine instructions are a program.  Compiled C
and some compiled BASICs produce machine instructions and are
therefore programs.

Interpreted code, be it C or BASIC, don't produce machine
instructions.  In the absence of their interpreter they can do
nothing at all.  As with HTML.  The program is the interpreter.

I'm still bothered by the fact that HTLM can't do computation.  But
I'm not really sure how that fits.

Barry