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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: "Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:37:16 GMT
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Randy McLaughlin wrote ...
>"wildstar" <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Wildstar, you are being a little too rigid with your definition of
programming language. Please remember when you thought that Lisa's
definition of workstation was too rigid.
First to be a programming language, it must be usable for programming. Here
is a dictionary definition of programming; n. 1. The designing, scheduling,
or planning of a program.
Some one correct me if I'm wrong, but ENIAC was programmed using jumper
wires. Therefore, either jumper wires are a programming language, or ENIAC
was not a computer.
BTW, ENIAC could not play pong, so by the Wildstar definition it could not
have been a computer.
Randy, I would call HTML a computer language, but I'm not sure if I would go
so far as to call it a programming language.
HTML does little more than display a page without help from scripting
languages. I can create a page with pen and paper, so is the ink in my
ballpoint a programming language?