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

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

"wildstar" <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ultimately, I think the test will only be to determine if a digital file
> is a just a data file or a computer program. Anyway, this can be rather
> determined but can be very tricky. Even some data files may inadvertantly
> be a full functioning computer program. Just a case of chance.

This is another dead horse:  Machine language programs running on an
emulator are programs.  A C program is a text file that is compiled into an
asm object file( also a text file), that is then assembled into a binary
object file, that may be linked into another binary file.  All of these
files are programs (yes, even the text files).