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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: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:13:02 -0000
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"Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now> wrote in
pan.2003.06.20.21.17.41.693608@tjonk.now:">news:pan.2003.06.20.21.17.41.693608@tjonk.now: 

 
> Just make a bunch of HTML pages - one for each combination of paddle
> and ball positions. It does not require anything else but the
> HTTP-refresh to make a playable game.
> 

Yeah if I had 500 GBytes of webspace. Think about it. HTML is not made for 
the purpose of making programs thus is not a true programming language. One 
can do all sorts of tricks to push something beyond the designed purpose 
but you lack quality and efficiency that a simple programming language like 
BASIC would do in 1 single line of code.

References:
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: "Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now>
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: "Really" <barryem@yahoo.com>
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>
- Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)
  - From: "Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now>

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