On Mar 30, 1:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That's weird. I feel like I could go on about an introductory program > for days and days, la. > > I usually start (both times) with interpreted vs. compiled. It's a > layer of abstraction. But it's very weird; the layers can't tell > either of each other apart. I can hand you the machine instructions, > the names of circuitry, that run Line 1 to Line 9 one time, but you > can't tell the difference between the code and the data. > > Some of it lingers in post-perceptive operations: the memory system, > for the record. Some lingers long times. So far it equates to > different Pythons produce different Pythons, however, though, so I'll > ask the spell checker. Python.get_back_in_skin(). Weird. > > I'm not sure if it makes any difference. The binary you run is > Python.exe. It's already running, then you feed it a raw string, not > on disk without loss of generality. The translation is a little hard > to find too. > > Python :: mingw-c++ : > Python.exe :: mingw-c++.exe : > what? :: machine instructions.exe > > In Python there's a for-loop that's the exact same as one in machine > instructions. > > 0101 b1= 1000 > 0110 if a < b0 goto b1 > 0111 b2= b2+ 1 > > accumulates a number in register b2. You probably want interface and > graphics primitives. Sometimes I feel like "with a scroll bar" > suffices to specify all the detail you need; there's too many > options. (I can do this and this and ... scroll bar, please.) You > know the episode of Star Trek NG where Barclay takes over the > Enterprise. > > I'd also like to be able to write (write) a series of instructions and > have it loop, and debug in vivo, as though a BASIC program were > running and I could edit lines in its doing so, maybe time Windows > Media visualization codecs in time. You could tell story lines and > have it refine, post-inspiration. > > You might be surprised how much repetition in instructions Lines 1 > through 9 (of -code-) share, in both sides of the analogy. Anyone > work with a VAX?
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