Re: Settling an Argument - Assembly *IS* a Language, Right?

In article <4471B8BC.5322@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Herman Rubin wrote:

In article <446F20DE.64AD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hanumizzle@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

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Nothing to do with human language.

On the contrary, it is a language devised by humans.
to be used by humans to give instructions to a computer.

How does that make it a human language?

Who created the language?

Who uses the language?

By your reasoning, a machine language is a language devised by machines
to be used by machines to give instructions to a computer. I don't think
that's right.

I do not believe there are any such. People do use
"machine languages" for the languages understood in
"native" form by machines.

Before any assemblers were developed, it was necessary
to put these instructions into the sequence of 0's and 1's
which formed the instructions, addresses, etc.

You know of any human languages that operate exclusively on 1s and 0s?


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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
The transmission of your posting from computer to computer
uses such a language, again designed by humans. That
humans have devised a shorthand system based on strings
of these for easier reading or writing does not change
the fact the the underlying language only uses 1's and 0's.
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