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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: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:03:29 -0500
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"Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com> wrote in message
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> "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > That is my point you are using a test that determines whether a piece of
> > hardware is a computer to test to see if a language is a computer
> > programming language. You are mixing apples and oranges.
>
> You might as well bitch that English dictionaries are often written in
> English, leading to some sort of chicken and egg problem. In reality,
it's
> not a big deal.
>
> Another nice thing about Turing machines is they don't have to physically
> exist to be useful. The Lambda calculus existed for a long time before a
> clever grad student hand-coded 'eval' into machine language and made Lisp.
>
> Kelly
It similar to the chicken and the egg problem but it's not. The Turing
engine defines what is required to be a particular type of machine. That is
not related to what language it takes to program such a machine. The main
definition it had on programming was that the program was stored (on tape
originally vs. hard-wired contemporaries).