Re:E Programming Language
by voldacar on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @05:58PM
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By that logic, every programming language is just an assembly framework ;)
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That sounds truthy. Every programming language is a machine language framework.
Re:E Programming Language
by blackflame7000 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @08:04PM
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Not necessarily, I would consider an interpreter as something entirely different because there is no requirement that it abide to the syntax of the language. I feel that syntax defines the language just like spoken language. It doesn’t make sense to me to say this language english is implemented in Spanish and German.
> Not necessarily, I would consider an interpreter as something entirely different because there is no requirement that it abide to the syntax of the language.
What does this mean? A language interpreter naturally abides to the syntax of the language it implements.
> It doesn’t make sense to me to say this language english is implemented in Spanish and German.
Maybe because natural languages are a useless analogy for this in the first place.
a cpu is a microcode interpreter