Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

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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:

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Really? So if its a language you'll be able to understand this then:
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0011101011010101010001110101010010110110001110010100101001010100
0101001010010010100101010111001010100110100111010101010101010101
0001110100011101010001001010110011100010101001110010100101100010

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I certainly understand this, even four decades later
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  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