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

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

> I happen to agree with you 100% HTML is a computer language.
>
> I go further and say it is a computer programming language.
>
> My point is in pointing out not what people know of HTML but what people
> don't know about programming.  Programming has been around for hundreds of
> years.  The concept of programming helped to create computers.  It amazes
me
> how people seem to think that programming follows computers.  That to be
> programming it must be X, they believe they know X so they know what
> programming is.  Programming is not nearly as narrow as some people would
> like to make it.

Your statement brings to mind an ancient device called an
"ABACUS" Although mechanical in design, it needed to
be programmed(manipulated) in order to output the desired
result. Without the slides being moved, no result could be
attained. Much like the ABACUS, binary is a series of up
and down, on and off, am I or aren't I. In exact terms, the
very ancient device is very much like it in that you added the
on, or up, slides together to obtain the desired quotient. ;-)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
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Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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