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From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons")
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Subject: talking about Dave's source code answer
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Date: 9 Feb 89 08:42:57 GMT
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>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 17:49:48 PST
>From: Brian Fox <bfox%vision@hub.ucsb.edu>
>Subject: What is source code? (answered)

Hey, I'm _not_ getting paid for this.  I don't think my answer was
completely worthless.

I think I succeeded in showing _why_ there is such a thing as source
code & why compilers/assemblers are useful.  I _didn't_ want to just
answer by saying that source code is something that only programmers
need to have and understand:  I wanted to show source code in several
languages and show how it differs from object code.

That was more than Dale asked for, but there are a lot of people
reading this newsgroup.  I bet a few people learned _something_ from
it, and if people work with their e-mail the way I do, some people
have filed the message in a "stuff I want to understand better
later" folder.

If Dale or anyone wants a clarification of anything I said, I'll do
my best.

--David A. Lyons              bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs
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