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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: wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:56:25 -0000
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"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in
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> Dictionarries are recognized authorities on definitions, I don't know
> if you noticed but the thread is an argument on the definition of
> programming.
In short form a computer programming language aka programming language is
an artificial language consisting of code for writing instructions to be
executed by a computer.
markup language: (Includes HTML) A set of specifications describing the
characteristic of elements that appear on a page.
There is some really defining difference. Ultimately is a defining form a
programming language is a computer language to create programs. A program
is a list of instructions to be executed by a computer. A fair definition
is as follow:
Programming Language: is an artificial language consisting of code for
writing a sequence of instructions to be carried out, executed,
processed, compared, and/or calculated by a computer. These sequences of
instructions are called programs.
A markup language falls short on the fact that it is not structured for
instructing.
A key secret to know, any piece of binary (includes electronic
text/documents/pics can be processed in ML. Often if not done properly in
a controlled manner, these will get wild and rather unpredictable. A
ASCII text file can be processed at ML level but the results are often
wildly and unpredicted and is not "programmed" in any sense of a
controlled manner. Unless you know your character set and you opcode
structure and how an opcode is processed.