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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
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| Subject | Re: Is binary a "language"? |
| Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:59:11 -0700 |
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Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> writes:
> Todd Carnes wrote:
> ) If you accept the definition of "language" as "a particular kind of
> ) system for encoding and decoding information", which is one of the
> ) definitions given at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language, then
> ) "binary" DOES qualify as a language.
>
> No it doesn't. Not by itself. You also need a system to assign
> informational meanings to the encoding. That system is the language.
>
> In other words: You can't encode information with binary *alone*, you
> also need some kind of definition/system that tells you what the binary
> endocing *means*.
Like XML?
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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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