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



"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.