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Why is Morse code included? I'm not being flippant, but rather genuinely curious as to whether there's some basis for it being considered a "programming" langu
by doktrin 15y ago
Why is Morse code included? I'm not being flippant, but rather genuinely curious as to whether there's some basis for it being considered a "programming" language or precursor thereof.
This isn't to confuse Morse code with reMorse :
http://esolangs.org/wiki/ReMorse http://esolangs.org/wiki/ReMorse
- mtrn 15y agoI started to read Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold two days ago - and he starts with morse code (and braille). You're right, it's no programming language (just an encoding) - but seemingly near conceptually to a language (for Petzold, anyway - yay it's got 0's and 1's, too).
- pmjordan 15y agoDoes the book really focus on Morse code having 0s and 1s? Isn't it technically a ternary encoding as opposed to a binary (0/1) one? The gaps between letters are pretty significant.
- mkopinsky 15y agoThis is what I found funny about Gmail Tap 28 days ago. They managed to take Morse Code - a tertiary encoding with only one input button - and "simplify" it by having three buttons.
- cloudwalking 15y agoWe simplified the default Android keyboard from ~28 keys to 3. We didn't simplify Morse Code.
- mkopinsky 15y agoYou complexified Morse code, is the point! Once you're doing Morse code, you may as well make the entire keyboard be one key!
- rikthevik 15y agoTuring completeness is a pretty good indicator of whether you're looking at a programming language or not.