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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming

email@luddite.ca (Simon Williams) wrote in
1fwuzp2.1c0b051cw0qsiN%email@luddite.ca:">news:1fwuzp2.1c0b051cw0qsiN%email@luddite.ca: 

> a) Programming Language
> b) Computer Programming Language
> c) Computer Language
> 
> Different concepts... (b) is (c) + (a), but neither (a) nor (c) are
> automatically (b).
> 
> Furthermore, if
> 
> 10 PRINT "HELLO"
> 
> is a computer program then
> 
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
>         <TITLE>Hello Program</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#FFFFFF">
> <B>Hello</B>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> 
> is surely a better program ;-)
> 
> 
> This whole thread is turning into an excersise in (pointless)
> semantics. And unless I'm very much mistaken, has little relevance to
> any of groups to which it is being cross-posted... though if there is
> an HTML interpreter available for the Apple II I'd be very pleased to
> hear about it :)
> 

Truly for your example, (on a C64)

10 poke53281,0:print"hello" 

does exactly what your program does with the exception of turning text
white. Now on a C64, following the quote and before the h - you would
press Control key + the 2 key and your color and a symbol will appear.
When you run it the character should be white. Now there was a poke
command that can turn the text color. I believe poke648 followed by ,1. 

Then again that is memory map stuff. So this line would do the same if
the poke number is correct but the structure is correct. 

10 poke53280,1:poke53281,1:poke648,1:print"hello"

Hope my BASIC v2 still serves me correctly.