22 Aug
2001
22 Aug
'01
1:32 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great McFadden, Mike once stated:
Here we go with the language discussion.
First I put on the flameproof suit, insert ear plugs, cover eyes with
antiflash goggles, and place flack vest on front and back.
Are any of the following a computer language?
IBM JCL
IBM assembler
DCL
SPSS
SAS
BMDP
C
Datatrieve
HPGL
If they're Turing Complete (basically, can you implement a Turing
Machine?) then they're computer languages. TECO and vi are Turing Complete
and therefore, technically computer languages (although you'd have to be one
sick puppy to actually write a program in TECO or vi 8-)
-spc (HTML is NOT Turing Complete ... )