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

["Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>]

"Peter Karlsson" <petekarl@online.no> wrote in message
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> Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com>:
>
> > HTML is an instruction sequence in programmed instruction.
>
> No, it isn't. There's no sequence in HTML. You can just as easily parse a
> HTML page from the end and get the same result. You cannot do that with a
> computer program.

HTML would not have the same results if read backwards.  It must be read in
sequence to perform.

For example:

</big>hello</big>

v

>gib/<olleh>gib<

or even:

</big>hello<big>

even in the simplest case it is different.  The script is and must be
performed in sequence.

As I have said befor you are limiting your definition of programming from
the standard published definition.  The concept of a Turing engine allows
for a computational programming, but that does dot define all type of
programming.

>
> > just out of curiosity how do you do inline assembly language in ADA or
> > Cobol?
>
> Make sure you have a compiler that supports it.

The compiler does not define the language it impliments it.  If a compiler
has non-standard extensions that increase the functionality on a particular
platform it does not mean the "language" supports it, just that a particular
dialect does.  If someone wrote a browser that allowed inline-assembly
language for for windows calls etc. it would not mean that HTML for every
other browser would have to change.

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