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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:27:18 +0200
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On 14/10/2024 16:53, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:38:04 -0000 (UTC)
>> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) boring babbled:
>>> In article <veiki1$14g6h$1@dont-email.me>,  <Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:15:45 -0000 (UTC)
>>>> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) boring babbled:
>>>>> Oh really?  Is that why they call it "machine language"?  It's
>>>>> even in the dictionary with "machine code" as a synonymn:
>>>>> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine%20language
>>>>
>>>> Its not a programming language.
>>>
>>> That's news to those people who have, and sometimes still do,
>>> write programs in it.
>>
>> Really? So if its a language you'll be able to understand this then:
>>
>> 0011101011010101010001110101010010110110001110010100101001010100
>> 0101001010010010100101010111001010100110100111010101010101010101
>> 0001110100011101010001001010110011100010101001110010100101100010
> 
> I certainly understand this, even four decades later
> 
>   94A605440C00010200010400000110
> 

In my early days of assembly programming on my ZX Spectrum, I would 
hand-assembly to machine code, and I knew at least a few of the codes by 
heart.  (01 is "ld bc, #xxxx", 18 is "jr", c9 is "ret", etc.)  So while 
I rarely wrote machine code directly, it is certainly still a 
programming language - it's a language you can write programs in.