On 17/10/2013 15:49, Mark Janssen wrote:
Prior to that [the '70s] you have punch cards where there's no meaningful
definition of "parsing" because there are no tokens.
I have no idea what you mean by this. [...]
You seem drawn to sweeping statements about the current state and history of
computer science, but then make claims like this about punched cards that
just make no sense.
It's like this. No matter how you cut it, you're going to get back to
the computers where you load instructions with switches. At that
point, I'll be very much looking in anticipation to your binary-digit
lexer.
Please dial 911, 999 or whatever and ask for an ambulance, it looks as
if the last batch that you bought to smoke was heavily contaminated.
--
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
But this one doesn't.
Mark Lawrence
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