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From: Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:23:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:28:32 +0200
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> boring babbled:
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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?

A programming language is an abstraction of machine instructions that is
readable by people.