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On 17/10/2013 15:49, Mark Janssen wrote:
>>     Prior to that [the '70s] you have punch cards where there's no meaningful
>> definition of "parsing" because there are no tokens.
>>
>> I have no idea what you mean by this. [...]
>> You seem drawn to sweeping statements about the current state and history of
>> computer science, but then make claims like this about punched cards that
>> just make no sense.
>
> It's like this.  No matter how you cut it, you're going to get back to
> the computers where you load instructions with switches.  At that
> point, I'll be very much looking in anticipation to your binary-digit
> lexer.
>

Please dial 911, 999 or whatever and ask for an ambulance, it looks as 
if the last batch that you bought to smoke was heavily contaminated.

-- 
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
But this one doesn't.

Mark Lawrence