10 May
2010
10 May
'10
12:38 p.m.
about 20 years ago, I worte some trivial programs in
Postscript. I'll
Postscript is certainly a programming language. I would agree that
writing it by hand is programming.
maintain that that WAS programming, albeit not very
significant.
BUT, as soon as it gets labelled "programming", the jerk who clicks the
"Postscript" output button in the page making program that he uses
(without mastery) will start calling himself a "programmer".
Agreed...
Another example would be TeX and/or Metafont. When used in the normal way
I would n't claim it was 'programming. But both are in fact complete
programming languages It is techncially possible (although very
inefficient) to do anything computable using them. At which point I would
claim you were programming.
I've come across several progrmas, from opearing system 'SYSGEN' programs
to application geneators which output code in a particlaur prgoramming
language (in the former case, they patch the assembly language or
whatever source code to include the options you want, to access I/O
devices at particular addresses, and so on). However, although the output
is a program, I wou;dn't call using SYSGEN to be 'programming'
-tony