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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 11:39:26 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.apple2, rec.games.video.classic, comp.os.cpm
References: <7a1fd8df.0301181540.30e19a40@posting.google.com> <aA4Ja.10576$bH3.2854@fe02.atl2.webusenet.com> <bd4bce$epe$1@merope.saaf.se> <lQoJa.15605$bH3.5463@fe02.atl2.webusenet.com> <bd6931$158b$1@merope.saaf.se>
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"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
news:bd6931$158b$1@merope.saaf.se...
<snip>
> > As such it would require control of something.  Not all
> > programming languages contain strings at all, the one example is the
Eniac
> > it had a language with no strings at all (other than the copper
"strings"
> > (wires).
>
> FORTRAN didn't have strings either, up until FORTRAN IV.  In these
> FORTRAN versions, string manipulation was performed by putting the
> strings in NUMERICAL variables.....
<snip>

The "strings" referenced a post that you snipped.  The string were strings
of instructions.

References:
- Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)

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