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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: wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:49:36 -0000
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"Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com> wrote in
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> Wildstar, you are being a little too rigid with your definition of
> programming language. Please remember when you thought that Lisa's
> definition of workstation was too rigid.
>
> First to be a programming language, it must be usable for programming.
> Here is a dictionary definition of programming; n. 1. The designing,
> scheduling, or planning of a program.
>
> Some one correct me if I'm wrong, but ENIAC was programmed using
> jumper wires. Therefore, either jumper wires are a programming
> language, or ENIAC was not a computer.
>
> BTW, ENIAC could not play pong, so by the Wildstar definition it could
> not have been a computer.
>
> Randy, I would call HTML a computer language, but I'm not sure if I
> would go so far as to call it a programming language.
>
> HTML does little more than display a page without help from scripting
> languages. I can create a page with pen and paper, so is the ink in
> my ballpoint a programming language?
You're right. I shouldn't have been quite that rigid. In microcomputers,
programming languages are used to create programs and apps. HTML doesn't
provide any form of actual programming functionality and the web browser
itself incorporates all the routines and the tags simply describe
settings. Then again I would not precisely call HTML a "programming
language". I would still call it a computer language.