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

["Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com>]

"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:bX4Ia.890$Xj1.309@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com...
> "Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com> wrote in message
> 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.

Now I see where we got into this.  You hold the position that writing HTML
is 'programming'.  I hold the position that HTML doesn't describe
computation, hence isn't a computer programming language in the strict
sense.  We're talking about two very different things.

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

It's very much to *my* point, but not to yours.

Kelly