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:4LKLa.331$Sk.165@fe02.atl2.webusenet.com...
> 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).

You're finally getting it!  They are all programs because they each have a
defined syntax, a defined semantics, and describe computation.

Kelly