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| From | Ramine <ramine@1.1> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: What's computer programming |
| Date | Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:47:24 -0800 |
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Hello... On 2/22/2015 1:09 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:> No, it's more like creating a list of instructions that a computer can > use to accomplish a particular task. > > Trying to define it in terms of robotics is unhelpful, because a robot > is basically a computer with peripherals that can move, and you have to > program the movements. The definition thus becomes recursive, and not in > a helpful way. I don't agree with you.. Because what's a physical robot ? and what's a computer ? When you construct a computer program , you also move and mix and work with bit and bytes and you also do measurements on the bits and bytes and on conceptual representations and numerical representations of physical objects to construct other objects from bits and bytes and from objects and from methods and conceptual representations and numerical representations of physical objects and you have to incorporate knowledge in it to give it the ability to behave in different ways... so a computer program is like a physical microprocessor or a computer or a robot, because to construct a them have to move and mix the matter and to work with matter and do measurements on the matter to construct physical representations (from a concept also), and you have to incorporate in them "knowledge" to give them the ability to behave in different ways: so computer programs are like a physical microprocessors, or physical computers or a physical robots... Thank you, Amine Moulay Ramdane.
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What's computer programming Ramine <ramine@1.1> - 2015-02-22 16:06 -0800
Re: What's computer programming Ramine <ramine@1.1> - 2015-02-22 16:47 -0800
Re: What's computer programming Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-02-22 16:41 -0500
Re: What's computer programming Ramine <ramine@1.1> - 2015-02-22 16:56 -0800
Re: What's computer programming Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-02-22 17:50 -0500
Re: What's computer programming Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-02-22 16:49 -0500
Re: What's computer programming Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2015-02-22 22:49 +0100
Thanks to all respondents (was: What's computer programming) Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-22 17:27 -0500
Re: What's computer programming Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-02-23 13:29 +0000
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