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

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

"Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com> wrote in message
news:1y6Ia.9$aY3.899165@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com...
>
> "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:bX4Ia.890$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

We obviously are talking about two different things.  You are misusing the
term computer programming language.  HTML is a computer programming
language, it is not a computational language.

A person can be an HTML programmer producing HTML programs.  They are
limited programs (which is why there are several extensions like java).

Also remember not all comptational languages are computer programming
languages.