In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/09/2006
at 01:04 PM, John P Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>For example, under this formulation, a table of hexadecimal operation
>codes executable on some S/3x0-compatible physical processor meets
>the definition of a programming language.
No, you'd need a far larger description, including data formats and
instruction formats. Google for IPL-V for a simple example.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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