Algorithms +Data Structures = Programs (Niklaus Wirth, 1975)
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:38 pm
(poll answer)
Two yeras ago, I wrote to Niklaus Wirth to ask him the same, cause I'm simple mind and I think that even making an omelette is executing a program.
I was asking it cause a problem of the intellectual property of a website.
In Spain you can not register a website as a "program" cause it has not "the source code" (sic)... (it has, indeed: pure HTML !)
You must register a website as "images" (artwork) or/and "text" (literature).
I dont know if someone can understand "0001010010010010" as "literature"... (very advanced !)
But Wirth wrote me back that HTML (under his opinion) was NOT a program
He does not give me further explanations (I think he didn't wish to be in the middle of a legal quarrel, nor me!)
I know that HTML is ONLY a Markup Language (an encoding system used to indicate how a document should be formatted), and really with very "poor" features...
But the more I think on it, the more I belive IT IS STILL A PROGRAM (and no one of the previous NOs makes me think the opposite)
Is the DNA a program?
Two yeras ago, I wrote to Niklaus Wirth to ask him the same, cause I'm simple mind and I think that even making an omelette is executing a program.
I was asking it cause a problem of the intellectual property of a website.
In Spain you can not register a website as a "program" cause it has not "the source code" (sic)... (it has, indeed: pure HTML !)
You must register a website as "images" (artwork) or/and "text" (literature).
I dont know if someone can understand "0001010010010010" as "literature"... (very advanced !)
But Wirth wrote me back that HTML (under his opinion) was NOT a program
He does not give me further explanations (I think he didn't wish to be in the middle of a legal quarrel, nor me!)
I know that HTML is ONLY a Markup Language (an encoding system used to indicate how a document should be formatted), and really with very "poor" features...
But the more I think on it, the more I belive IT IS STILL A PROGRAM (and no one of the previous NOs makes me think the opposite)
Is the DNA a program?