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



"Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com> wrote in
news:bZMIa.922$jy1.468@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com: 

 
> The difference is that in a state machine there's sequencing,
> represented and processed *within* the state machine.  A state machine
> is a *dynamic* process.
> 
> In the PONG example, the sequencing is a chunk of text (a URL) that is
> used to issue an HTTP request.  There's no sequencing possible without
> the browser issuing an HTTP request to fetch a new HTML page.  HTML is
> static. 
> 
> Kelly
> 


Alot of pushing the language outside its design purpose. One can do alot 
but still is quite limited and it is in these limitations that defines 
what is a Programming language and what is just a computer language for a 
different purpose. Programming languages are computer languages designed 
for creation of programs and therefore is designed with internal features 
such as variable handling to enable the creation of a program not alot of 
snapshot images that are just simply sequenced together to give the 
illusion.