Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

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:

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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.

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Careful (myself included); watch out for the glazed frost!
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You know there's formal definitions for what constitutes languages.
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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.