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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: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:11:09 -0000
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"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in
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> You have shown you know very little of computers. Computers have only
> recently gotten to the point of doing the functions you state are
> requirements to program them. Your ignorance of the history of both
> computers and programming is extremely funny. I can not believe that
> anyone with even half a brain like you have can say with a straight
> face that the developers of the Eniac ever expected to do one thing
> you say is required for programming, just as 100 years ago anyone
> programming looms would ever have thought the same thing.
>
> <snip>
ENIAC really didn't have a "programming language". Programming Languages
started in the late 50s to early 60s. ENIAC was a computer but was
manually hard wired to each state in which on wanted.
Then again Puch Cards where used to configure the hardware.
Ok, if we go to such definition then any state changing effect one does
to a computer may be considered programming. The modern definition has
gotten more rigid by the years when defining differences between script
languages and programming languages and markup languages. HTML is not
used to create application but I can assure you that most of what I
described have been around for the last 15-25 years.