From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6609c40f81b32989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9bdec20bcc7f3687 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 101deb,e67cdb1dcad3c668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,gid8d3408f8c3,gidbda4de328f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.wiretrip.org!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news-x3!mail2news-x2!mail2news From: "Non scrivetemi" Message: This is a Type II anonymous message, sent to you by the Winston Smith Project Pboxmix mixmaster server at pboxmix.winstonsmith.info. If you do not want to receive anonymous messages, please contact pbox-admin@winstonsmith.info. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use References: Message-ID: <570d1fbf63147dd5c651480149fffbf9@pboxmix.winstonsmith.info> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:33:33 +0200 (CEST) Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com Organization: mail2news@dizum.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12342 comp.lang.fortran:26394 comp.lang.pl1:1492 Date: 2010-06-06T20:33:33+02:00 List-Id: Arthur Evans Jr wrote: > In article <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net>, > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: > > > The last time you cited something that you claimed to have > > been written in machine language it turned out to have been written in > > assembler. > > As one who was writing programs in 1957, I can assure you that the two > terms were then used interchangeably. > > Art Evans > Old Codger I don't know what happened up to that point, but I can assure you that the two terms were not used interchangably after 1957. Assembler is *not* machine language.