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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:27:09 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: <veljid$1mglo$1@dont-email.me> References: <uu54la$3su5b$6@dont-email.me> <vefvo0$k1mm$1@dont-email.me> <vegiqq$me2$1@reader1.panix.com> <vegmul$ne3v$1@dont-email.me> <vegp1r$oqh$1@reader1.panix.com> <vegqu5$o3ve$1@dont-email.me> <vegsfh$ofeu$1@dont-email.me> <veikdn$14fkj$1@dont-email.me> <9kaPO.387680$WOde.298214@fx09.iad> <vejghe$192vs$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:27:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="47228e08c2736a5aef9f5441cfbf6fae"; logging-data="1786552"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19+YDCFCDYNFTCSjBNfCANaiyuK7oBA5H8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:d0sJm/I3sB4cQqJpIMXY9PUw90M= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <vejghe$192vs$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 2511 On 14/10/2024 18:23, Bart wrote: > On 14/10/2024 15:58, Scott Lurndal wrote: >> Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes: >>> On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:28:32 +0200 >>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> boring babbled: >>>> [ X-post list reduced ] >>>> >>> >>> A programming language is an abstraction of machine instructions that is >>> readable by people. >> >> By that definition, PAL-D is a programming language. > > (I've no idea what PAL-D is in this context.) > >> Any assembler is a programming language, by that definition. > > > You mean 'assembly'? An assembler (in the sofware world) is usually a > program that translates textual assembly code. > I took "an assembler" to mean "an assembler language", which is a common alternative way to write "an assembly language". And IMHO, any assembly language /is/ a programming language. > 'Compiler' isn't a programming language (although no doubt someone here > will dredge up some obscure language with exactly that name just to > prove me wrong). > I tried, just to please you, but I couldn't find such a language :-)