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From: Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 08:22:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:25:17 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> boring babbled:
>On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 08:42:17 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
>
>> Code generated by a compiler does not require an interpreter.
>
>Something has to implement the rules of the “machine language”. This is 
>why we use the term “abstract machine”, to avoid having to distinguish 
>between “hardware” and “software”.
>
>Think: modern CPUs typically have “microcode” and “firmware”
>associated 
>with them. Are those “hardware” or “software”?

Who cares what happens inside the CPU hardware? It could be a group of pixies 
with abacuses for all the relevance it has to this argument. Standalone
binaries contain machine code that can be directly executed by the CPU.

>> If you want to go down the reductio ad absurdum route then the electrons
>> are interpreters too.
>
><https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-computational-universe>
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics>

Thats heading off into philosphy.