On Tuesday 14 November 2006 09:02, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 08:59, M Harris wrote:
On Saturday 11 November 2006 22:17, Randall R Schulz wrote:
. . . software _is not_ text. It is mechanism. It is logic. It is ideas. Text is only the way it is externalized from its point of conception in a human mind (or, in some cases, from another program).
No...
Software is *only* text. Software is not an idea, a mechanism, or logic.
You couldn't be more wrong, but I don't care to teach you undergraduate computer science.
Persist in your willful misconception.
I know this should be going OT, but PLEASE tell us how we're wrong. I've been doing software only since the late '70s so I'm a bit of a newbie, but I've always been using text editors and copyrights for it. AFAIK, I've always used either ASCII or EBCDIC to write (notice that word) programs. At some point, the programs got compiled into some un-readable machine code, but prior they were just text. Just words and symbols. The way I see it - unless you're flipping switches on an Altair 8000 (which could be patented) then you're writing text. -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com a turn signal is a statement, not a request --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org