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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: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:37:51 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <Xns939FA7E65252wildstar128hotmailco@216.168.3.44>,
wildstar  <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Excuse me, one has to first write/compile a JAVA compiler. It still 
> requires interpretation during execution. Did you forget about the byte-
> code interpretation. That is like converting tokens in token BASIC.

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.

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References:
- Computing Editorial (please read)
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