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

["Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>]

"Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now> wrote in message
pan.2003.06.18.21.25.13.96296@tjonk.now">news:pan.2003.06.18.21.25.13.96296@tjonk.now...
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:16:18 -0500, Randy McLaughlin wrote:

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> There are no verbs in HTML. With HTML it is only possible to specify how
> the text is to be interpreted by the HTML renderer. It is not possible to
> "act" in any way - an HTML page is static.

A basic program:

10 PRINT "hello"

I tried it no matter how many time I run it it always acts the same way, it
just prints hello.  I tried several more programs everytime I ran any
program it always acted the same way when the input was the same.  I could
never get any program to not be static.  Every program I ran still had the
same results no matter how many times I ran them.

Obviously I am wrong if the results remain static it's not a program.

And I thought that simple spread-sheets I wrote on CP/M machines to help
create estimates were programs.  I charged people for programming.

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