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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: "Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:33:31 GMT
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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