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"Chris" wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:56:10 -0400,
wrote:
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:50:44 GMT, "Chris"
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:23:46 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Chris wrote:
If you've never programmed in assembly language, don't talk to me
about being a real programmer.

Real programmers plugged diodes into a matrix to
execute their programs.

Nope. That's hardware manipulation,
no that is prgraming indeed it is basis of all prgraming

but you have to try and distrot and twist any line of logic till
bleeds

Not so. The whole idea of SOFTware was to get away from what
otherwise amounts to rewiring parts of your machine. At best, that
was FIRMware, and it was not portable. Software -- the stuff that
programmers produce -- can be easily copied among identical machines,
so you only have to do the programming job once. That saves money,
because it saves man hours.

Programmers produce SOFTware. Engineers and technicians design or
modify HARDware. Moving diodes or patch cables around is not software
programming; it is HARDware manipulation.

Have you ever written an assembly language program? If you had, you
would be able to distinguish between hardware and software, and you
would know how they interact. Your uninformed comments make me pretty
sure that you haven't.

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