ShadowAssasin

Ask your friend what he thinks assembly is then

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Benoit

3% scored higher (more nerdy), and
97% scored lower (less nerdy).

About that quiz....Everyone knows that BASIC is not a real language :p

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bivhitscar

>About that quiz....Any real nerd/geek would know that BASIC is not a real language

That was going to be my answer.

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bl00dninja

machine language isn't a real language. i execute all of my programs by twisting paper clips around the ends of a 9-volt battery and touch my processor with them at the appropriate times.

whatever.

anyone who makes claims like that just "pwned" themselves. there's a quote to the effect of "it's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt".

next time you go online, let 'im know that a diverse group of nerds, geeks, skips, skaps, scallywhops, and CS industry professionals say he's a FAG.

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lectricpharaoh

I'd agree with your entire post, except this; it's not always one-to-one. In fact, as I understand it, one of the primary reasons for using assembly is that it removes the need for programmers to remember all the variant opcodes for instructions that are semantically identical. For example, in 80x86 assembly, the MOV mnemonic is used for many different opcodes, depending on the nature of source and destination operands.
Hehe. Who's up for a pool to see how long before this ends up in someone's sig?

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uman

Being pedantic: The machine is not based on 1s and 0s so much as "true" and "false" values.

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bivhitscar

>Being pedantic: The machine is not based on 1s and 0s so much as "true" and "false" values.

More like voltages, if you want to get that way; 0v~5v, to be specific (in most cases).

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DaWei

The pedantry is just bullshit. Both terminologies are acceptable. Almost no one reading off the bit pattern of some value is going to call to you, "TRUE, FALSE, FALSE.....".

In reality, the cpus rarely run on logic levels of 0-5 volts, these days (though many of the devices do). 3.3 is more like it. As a matter of fact, 0-5 became very common with the original releases of DTL/TTL/etc., but has never been THE definition of true and false. All logical device spec sheets define these levels carefully and with plenty of caveats.

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Dragon_Master

Oh, my god... *puts hand over eyes* There's so many things wrong with your friend I don't even know where to begin.

First, HTML is not scripting. It's markup! Javascript is scripting (duh!). XML is anoher markup. Do know what's a dead give away to that fact? The fact that HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. Notice the bolded keywords!! Just in case you don't know what bold is: it's a font style that's darker than other text.

Second, assembly is a language. And the whole damn computer bases everything off of 1s and 0s. No, wait I'm sorry, ONS and OFFS! That's what they represent. It's digital!

Thirdly, that test was tring to get you to realize, as you probably did that, "PASCAL" is not a language because, it should not be capitalized. Pascal is not an acronym for anything. Therefore, it's real name is not capitolized!! Pascal is a programming language. "PASCAL" is not. It's kind of a trick question. Had your friend pulled his head out of his ass perhaps he would have realized this.

Tell your friend that he's a code grinder.

DaWei

...and all this time I thought it was Pooty Asinine Syntax for Computing Arithmetically and Logically....

As for the ones and zeros, visit your device's assembly-language reference. Many of them have the op codes for the relevant mnemonic presented with 1s and 0s. Not hex, because you're often looking at single bits or small sets of bits that represent the register, the operation, and numerous other things. They aren't using ON/OFF or TRUE/FALSE there, believe me.

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