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  • Re: about some myth on programing

    From Janis Papanagnou@janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com to comp.lang.c on Sun Aug 17 17:15:03 2025
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    On 11.08.2025 01:49, fir wrote:
    some thought -often programming is showed to be dealing with 0 nad ones,
    but it strike me that in fact this is untrue, come better could say that data/storage is from 0,1 but prgramming on its front in fact is dealing
    with opcodes (?) (numerical commands) and adresses - yet also all this microcycles... co in fact coding should be presented more like stream
    of numbers: 90 3349, 87, 6787 378236, 736 23872387, not bits

    Your "numbers" here are actually unsigned integer numbers, so there's effectively not much difference to bits but the number base (2 vs. 10).

    Programming doesn't even need to be defined in integral quantities, or
    need to assume a von Neumann architecture; it could be real numbers in
    analogue computers, where the program is defined by connecting analog
    adders, multipliers, integrators and configure them by potentiometers.

    Rarely anyone seems to recall analogue or hybrid computers. Let's wait
    for the quantum computers for yet another principle of computing...

    Janis

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