Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Is binary a "language"? Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:00:55 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Lines: 18 Message-ID: <87lizfcy54.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <48ecad59-950d-40ff-9fa6-6f107008335a@fu15g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <87wrizczf3.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <90j6tbFlrfU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net OgHv9FAHrNe24Q+WByywYQ2pODu3puc7ZwBo2B1nC6vL9kZog/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mjc2NjI5ZjUzOGEzMmUzZTgwMDVkYzYyMTIyY2I5M2NkZmQxODA5NA== sha1:zBuwGOH0gP+9+R2Z8yQibQN4Iio= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.programming:217 "osmium" writes: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" wrote: > >> Decimal computers used electronic tubes with ten states. > > Can you provide a reference to such a computer that ever got out of > someone's basement? My guess is that you can not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC Perhaps you could learn some computing history. After all it's less than a hundred years of history, even a lazy bumb could have some notions. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.