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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> "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > 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).
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> You're finally getting it!  They are all programs because they each have a
> defined syntax, a defined semantics, and describe computation.
>
> Kelly
I hate to tell you but computation is not required in a C program, and HTML
does have a defined synax.  I didn't mention semantics since that is the
original argument.