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

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

"Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com> wrote in message
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> One can implement a Turing machine in dBase without any trouble: a data
base
> has state, and has operations that can alter that state.  Unless you jump
> out of HTML to use something like JavaScript, ASP, or server-side
> processing, HTML is static, making it unable to express computation, and
> thus not a programming language.  This isn't a value judgement about the
> elegance or utility of HTML, it's about the fundamental nature of
computing.
>
> Kelly

Turing machines are not the only way to programming.  Looms and other
machines have existed for centuries, they are not turing machines yet
programming in every sense of the word has been done on them.  The same with
Holerith machines.

The fact you can create a turing machine in dbase is interesting but it is
totally off point.