Re: Aspiring highest-order programmer

From: Ben Measures (saint_abroadremove_at_removehotmail.com)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:37:59 GMT

Dave wrote:
> Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>> * JKop <NULL@NULL.NULL> schriebt:
>>> Can all programs be represented in Assembly Language? Every single
>>> imaginable program, written in any language?
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure if you're trolling or not.
>>
>> But anyway, the answer is no.
>>
>> For example, consider scripting of a web-page. It should work with any
>> browser that supports the scripting language. No way you can substitute
>> assembler language or resulting machine code.
>>
>
> But the path taken through a particular browser's machine code as a
> result of that script executing would describe a machine code
> representation of that script for the processor for which the browser
> was compiled. Just because the script is interpreted doesn't mean it
> can't be expressed in assembler. There may not be a
> scripting-language-to-assembler compiler in existence, but that doesn't
> mean representing the script in assembler is inherently impossible.
>

I think you missed what was meant there. The scripting being talked of
wasn't necessarily a language like ECMAScript.

WWW scripting involves HTML and CSS and languages such as these cannot
be described by or converted into machine code (and hence assembler
listings). 

-- 
Ben M.

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