Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming

["Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com>]

nospam@nouce.bellatlantic.net wrote:
| On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:57:07 +0200, "Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now>
| wrote:
|
|| On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:32:51 +0000, Simon Williams wrote:
||
||| though if there is an HTML
||| interpreter available for the Apple II I'd be very pleased to hear
||| about it :)
||
|| Take a look at Contiki, it contains an HTML interpreter.
|
| Feh... what was emacs written in?  Teco scripts lead to Vteco were
| handy as are DCL derived appications.
|
| If you can do it in asm you can do it in any languge that is
| sufficiently complete.    However I've love to see some one write HTML
| that can set Bit 3 of the DDR on a port.
|
| It's all noise most of this.

I've been following this 'discussion' since it got started, and have to
agree that it is basically a load of hot air - interesting hot air - but hot
air none the less. However, in the example above, Alison has come up with
what I reckon is one of the best examples yet to show the distinction
between a computer programming language and a text markup language. Though I
guess that anyone who considers a page of HTML to be a computer program, and
thus HTML to be a programming language, will still refute any examples no
matter how clear they are and how decisive the argument. The technical term
for this behaviour is 'being stubborn'.
So I might as well just go and crawl back under my rock.
Kevin.