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

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <Xns939F7A7487987wildstar128hotmailco@216.168.3.44>,
wildstar  <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote:
>pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote in
>news:bcsosv$otu$1@merope.saaf.se: 
>
>
>> Note quite: Java bytecode is much closer to machine language than
>> BASIC tokens.
>>  
>> Actually, even native machine code is interpreted -- by the hardware
>> CPU.  If you want to look at some REAL machine code, then you'll have
>> to look at the microcode om ROM's within many CPU's.
>>  
>
>Like Zork. Anytime you use representational code to represent a function
>great but byte-code really is a fancier token structure that is more
>flexible then early tokens.

No.  There's a difference between tokenizing and compiling.  Zork was
compiled.  BASIC is traditionally tokenized.  

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Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
            June 20, 2003 is GIF Freedom Day (US)