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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:55:14 +0200
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On 14.10.2024 17:27, David Brown wrote:
> On 14/10/2024 16:53, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
>>>
>>> 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.

Your post triggered some own memories...

I have an old pocket calculator (Sharp PC-1401) programmable in
BASIC. When I found out that it supports undocumented features to
read machine code numbers from memory and write code numbers into
memory (and call them as subprograms) I coded programs in decimal
byte sequences. (A pain, for sure, but in earlier computer eras
even a normal process.)

Janis