Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

In article <veiki1$14g6h$1@dont-email.me>,  <Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org> wrote:

On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:15:45 -0000 (UTC)
cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) boring babbled:

Oh really?  Is that why they call it "machine language"?  It's
even in the dictionary with "machine code" as a synonymn:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine%20language

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Its not a programming language.

That's news to those people who have, and sometimes still do,
write programs in it.

But that's not important.  If we go back and look at what I
wrote that you were responding to, it was this statement, about
what a compiler does, and your claim that I was asserting it
was translating anything to anything, which I was not:

|No.  It translates one computer _language_ to another computer
|_language_.  In the usual case, that's from a textual source

Note that I said, "computer language", not "programming
language".  Being a human-readable language is not a requirement
for a computer language.

Your claim that "machine language" is not a "language" is simply
not true.  Your claim that a "proper" compiler must take the
shape you are pushing is also not true.

- Dan C.