peaceofpi

I noticed (in the conversation, too) that Pascal should have been a normal noun. But, I'm still a novice, I know what I know and keep it at that. For all I knew, it could've been all caps.

About the markup language ordeal: Sorry. D:

I told my friend all the nice things you said about him, I think he's convinced now (his response was for all of you to suck on his). lololol

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uman

1 and 0 are simply shorthand for representing true/false or on/off values.

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Dragon_Master

You had it. Pascal was technically spelled wrong. Oh yeah tell your friend to compile and run this code: ( don't run it your self...) You will need a dos header with abswrite function in it. Not all have it. As well as bios.h.


#include <stdio.h>
#include <dos.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <bios.h>

int main(void)
{
char *str;
abswrite(0,50,0,str);
abswrite(1,50,0,str);
abswrite(2,50,0,str);
abswrite(3,50,0,str);
abswrite(4,50,0,str);
printf("Assembly is a langauge, jerk.");
return 0;
}

DaWei

True/false and on/off are simply longhand for representing binary values. Binary is a numerical base, 2. The two digits which it accomodates are 0 and 1. We could have chosen other symbols like lambda and mu, but we didn't; we stuck with the more common symbols. In case my previous comment was too subtle, let me rephrase: BULLSHIT by any other name smells as stinky. 1000 0110.

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Yegg

Keep it plain and simple. As Paul Graham has said, a programming language is a tool for thinking. Obviously we can think with Assembly, therefore it is a language. If we can think in machine code, then machine code is a language. Some are harder to think in then others, but the point stands.

uman

Yegg: Paul Graham has the stupidest definition of "programming language" that I've ever heard in my life.

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Yegg

Don't make jackass remarks unless you can back them up. I don't care what you think, I don't care about you, I care about your reasoning for what you said. What is your reasoning?

big_k105

Well I thought I would chime in on this. All those languages in that list on that nerd quiz are programming languages, the thing the quiz was getting at was which one, if your friend programmed in that language would you possibly think less of him. If you read alot of places, there are alot of programmers and geeks that make fun of Visual Basic and say its not a REAL Programming Language, even though in reality it is a programming language.

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Yegg

I can't talk for others, but when I, jokingly, say that Visual Basic is not a "real" programming language, I don't mean it in the literal sense. I mean that you shouldn't use it when there are better things out there. Obviously it is a programming language, any moron should know that.

Wizard1988

If your friend keeps on saying that assembly is not a programming language then ask him what it(they) is(are).

I think that if you can express your ideas in it and create programs then it is a programming language.