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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
- From: "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:47:04 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, rec.games.video.classic, comp.os.cpm
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"wildstar" <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93A57D03BDA50wildstar128hotmailco@216.168.3.44...
> "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in
> news:imkKa.7736$lT4.3118@fe04.atl2.webusenet.com:
>
> > My point was only to throw gasoline onto smoldering embers. I saw
> > several peoplle who did not understand what programming is to try and
> > redefine programming to be what they wanted it to be, requiring
> > extensive capabilities to be programming. Today people who study for
> > years to become a computer programmer do not WANT mundane tasks to be
> > computer programming. Many tasks people set up their computers do meet
> > the requirements to be programming, but no one would call the person
> > doing that programming a computer programmer.
>
> Yo Dickhead, yeah you. Writing a text file or an email is not programming.
Writing a text file can be programming i.e. a C/C++ program is a text file
the file resulting from compiling the C/C++ (or fortran, or whatever) is
also a program but it is no longer a C program.
Obvious emailing can also be a program: It obviously has you programmed.