Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <Xns93A0AFDE240C6wildstar128hotmailco@216.168.3.44>,
wildstar  <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote:
 
> "Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now> wrote in
> pan.2003.06.20.22.55.55.870271@tjonk.now:">news:pan.2003.06.20.22.55.55.870271@tjonk.now: 
> 
>> A bunch of HTML pages surely is HTML. What else would it be?
>> 
>> You don't need to use HTML to make such a Pong game, though. You could
>> just as well use millions of VHS tapes and record every possible ball
>> and paddle placement, and then play the correct frames on your TV.
>> Finding the right frame on a VHS cassette is a bit harder than finding
>> the right file on a web server, however :-)
> 
> You are using HTTP for linking. Ok, fine but what about score keeping.
 
Easy: make ome HTML page for each combination of these quantities:
 
  ball position
  ball velocity
  paddle position
  paddle velocity
  current score
 
and link them to one anohter in an appropriate way.  The number of HTML
pages will now become astronomical, of course.  But there's no real
problem in adding score keeping to our HTML Pong game.  When the score
reaches some specific limit, you can also add a "Game over" page.
 
> Now here is a true example of testament that I will test you with.
> Make an HTML version of Dynamoid from Double-Density
 
Should we take that as an admission of your part that your earlier
claim it's "impossible" to implement Pong in HTML was erroneous?
 
BTW I've never played that game --- so you'll first have to explain
its rules then, and how it's played....
 
> without the use of any script language or programming languages.
 
Are we allowed to use web browsers?  THey're implemented using
programming languages.....  <g>
 
> Just strict HTML that will work with an 
> HTML viewer. BTW: Links should work with an HTML viewer.
> 
> Score keeping is a must by the way as that is part of the game/program.
 
Adding score keeping is easy in principle: just increase the number
of HTML pages by a factor of the largest possible score.....
 
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