Re: Universal grammar

In article <ejr3ce$2fim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Herman Rubin) wrote:

But the idea here is to avoid programming, and learn how a computer works
on the very basic level! Then learning machine code is the absolute best,
but already assembler is too cryptic to a novice. The language BASIC
retains this step-by-step approach used on the low level which gives hints
on how to produce more human-like cardboard games. Imentioned it because
it is so crude from the programming point of view, that it liftsout this
veryelementary waycomputers work.

BASIC is crude from the programming point of view, and
is equally crude from the machine point of view. The
programming languages had the goal of making the power
of the machine available without having to learn the
inner workings, ...

Yes, that is the very idea: to bring out the fundamental structure of a
computer.

--
Hans Aberg
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