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From: swilson%thetone@Sun.COM (Scott Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers.(please use correct terminology!)
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Date: 29 Sep 88 01:00:45 GMT
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In article <3628@metavax.UUCP> marc@metavax.UUCP (Marc Paige) writes:
>I just finished reading someones rendition of C to MACHINE language! UGHN!!
>
>MACHINE language looks something like this (for a 32 bit word):
>
>10001110111110011011011000001111
>10010010111011011000110110011101
>10100011001111011011100001100111

All right, I'll be a weenie.  Unless you can see electrons (or holes or
whatever the hell is going on down there), machine language doesn't
look like anything.  At best it's a bit pattern or a collection of
electrical characteristics, hardly a language.  Your description of
it as 1010... is just an abstraction.  But I know what you were trying
to say so I'll go back to talking to myself now...

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