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

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <XbmdnfRIxaU5im6jXTWc-w@speakeasy.net>,
Matthew Russotto <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:
> In article <Xns939F7A7487987wildstar128hotmailco@216.168.3.44>,
> wildstar  <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote in
>>news:bcsosv$otu$1@merope.saaf.se: 
>>
>>
>>> Note quite: Java bytecode is much closer to machine language than
>>> BASIC tokens.
>>>  
>>> Actually, even native machine code is interpreted -- by the hardware
>>> CPU.  If you want to look at some REAL machine code, then you'll have
>>> to look at the microcode om ROM's within many CPU's.
>>>  
>>
>> Like Zork. Anytime you use representational code to represent a function
>> great but byte-code really is a fancier token structure that is more
>> flexible then early tokens.
> 
> No.  There's a difference between tokenizing and compiling.  Zork was
> compiled.  BASIC is traditionally tokenized.  
 
...and Java bytecode is compiled too.... like Pascal P-code.
 
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