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

["Really" <barryem@yahoo.com>]

"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Peter Karlsson" <petekarl@online.no> wrote in message
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> > Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com>:
> >
> > > HTML is an instruction sequence in programmed instruction.
> >
> > No, it isn't. There's no sequence in HTML. You can just as
easily parse a
> > HTML page from the end and get the same result. You cannot do
that with a
> > computer program.
>
> HTML would not have the same results if read backwards.  It must
be read in
> sequence to perform.
>
> For example:
>
> </big>hello</big>
>
> v
>
> >gib/<olleh>gib<
>
> or even:
>
> </big>hello<big>
>
> even in the simplest case it is different.  The script is and
must be
> performed in sequence.
>
> As I have said befor you are limiting your definition of
programming from
> the standard published definition.  The concept of a Turing
engine allows
> for a computational programming, but that does dot define all
type of
> programming.

Can we then assume from your use of the word that word processing
is also programming?  Or is there some essential difference in word
processing and HTML?

And does it matter that a program can very easily convert a word
processing document to an HTML document and back again?

Barry