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

[wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>]

"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in
news:SheIa.10577$_d3.8142@fe03.atl2.webusenet.com: 

> I have quoted two definitions of programming from the dictionary
> (American Heritage) in previous posts:
> 
>  6. A set of coded instructions that enables a machine, especially a
> computer, to perform a desired sequence of operations. 7. An
> instruction sequence in programmed instruction.
> 
> You are obviously ignorant about what programming is.  Please read the
> above definitions.  HTML is a script, a script that is a sequence of
> commands that instructs a browser to take actions.  In other words a
> HTML file is an instruction sequence in programmed instruction.
>

Just because it is a script does not make it a programming language. It 
is a computer language. So is LISP. It is a script language. That is what 
I told you. Example, is a batch script a true programming language ?
No. I don't think so.
 
> You can bring out all of the 8080 assembler examples of programming
> you want, you can talk about what hardware is or is not controlled
> (the VGA adapter is controlled via the HTML instructions), it simply
> does not change the very simple fact that HTML is a very limited
> computer programming language.

computer scripting language not programming language. Hey, do you think 
that WSH batch scripting is a real programmin language. You probably do.
PS: You where such a moron to not realize I was useing 6502. Then again 
8080 may have used some similar mnemonics. HTML doesn't control the VGA. 
The browser does that. 

> In hardware a RISC computer is not less of a computer simply because
> it has fewer instructions.  As long as it has enough instructions to
> do what the user desires it is a computer.  A computer programming
> language is not defined by how elegant it is, nor how powerful it is. 
> A computer programming language is defined by whether it meets the
> criteria of writing a sequence of instructions for the computer,
> whether the are compiled or interpreted does not mater.
> 

Yes and no. HTML is a scripting. You think WSH is a real programming 
language when it is a Shell scripting language.