Re: What is a programming language? (WAS Re: Unix systems and Serialization mechanism)

2010-07-13 Thread Zahir Hemini
Is GAL a programming language? What about the old SimPC script language? Do such things really qualify to be called Programming languages? I think this comes down to what you consider is programming. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:26 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, it never occurred to

What is a programming language? (WAS Re: Unix systems and Serialization mechanism)

2010-07-02 Thread Ted MacNEIL
OK, it's Friday afternoon, so time to broaden this a bit: Is HTML a programming language? By definition, I would say yes. And, I don't think this is a 'Friday' topic. After all, without programming languages, we wouldn't need computers. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation!

Re: What is a programming language? (WAS Re: Unix systems and Serialization mechanism)

2010-07-02 Thread zMan
FWIW, it never occurred to me that it *wasn't* a programming language. But when I referred to it as such a few years ago, I got lambasted by some (only some!) of my then-cow-orkers. So Ted, you and I agree on something! On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: OK,