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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:28:32 +0200
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On 13.10.2024 18:02, Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:30:03 -0000 (UTC)
> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) boring babbled:
>>> [...]
>>
>> No.  It translates one computer _language_ to another computer
>> _language_.  In the usual case, that's from a textual source
> 
> Machine code isn't a language. Fallen at the first hurdle with that 
> definition.

Careful (myself included); watch out for the glazed frost!

You know there's formal definitions for what constitutes languages.

At first glance I don't see why machine code wouldn't quality as a
language (either as some specific "mnemonic" representation, or as
a sequence of integral numbers or other "code" representations).

What's the problem, in your opinion, with considering machine code
as a language?

Janis