Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.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: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:30:43 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Lines: 15 Message-ID: <87vcydn2h8.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <48ecad59-950d-40ff-9fa6-6f107008335a@fu15g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <87wrizczf3.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <90j6tbFlrfU1@mid.individual.net> <87lizfcy54.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <29fc0345-1b7b-4e11-bcfe-bde8adebae93@v33g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <87sjtj8m45.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net YhNwmSunPahfmkYRZXa5JwN3KQX+sohsyJQX1OMs3ht4A0f2ck Cancel-Lock: sha1:ODkxM2U0NmM2ZWQwZjU5MmEyNWZlNDYyY2M2OGQ3YjA0MWY3ZWU0NA== sha1:VZ4RY4Iuwzfi1rcz7CWFADCn8pM= 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:245 spinoza1111 writes: >> So we'll have to fall back to the Russians's Сетунь for the development >> of a ternary, 3-state electronic tubes-based computer. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setunhttp://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm > > Perhaps the Russians thought a tristable device was Marxist. You know, > thesis, antithesis and synthesis being the tristable dialectic. They definitely did this as an anti-capitalist move. But then, their IBM-cloning industry got successful. :-) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.