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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- From: "Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:41:59 GMT
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"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
news:bcvu90$1tms$1@merope.saaf.se...
> Nevertheless, it is possible to implement the Game of Pong in HTML,
> just like any other kind of state machine. Admittedly though, a Pong
> implemented in pure HTML would not be particularly enjoyable to
> play...
The difference is that in a state machine there's sequencing, represented
and processed *within* the state machine. A state machine is a *dynamic*
process.
In the PONG example, the sequencing is a chunk of text (a URL) that is used
to issue an HTTP request. There's no sequencing possible without the
browser issuing an HTTP request to fetch a new HTML page. HTML is static.
Kelly