Re: LOGO-L> Re: Computer Language for Kids ?

[mikedoyle@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mike Doyle)]

In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.970711181952.24931B-100000@mugca.cc.monash.edu.au>-

Jeff wrote:

Morse is a binary code but it is unrelated to base two arithmetic 
communly used in computing. Morse codes the alphabet. If it has any 
analog in computing it is ASCII. 
> 
> However, as pictographic, and rebus, representation are evolutionary 
steps 
> on the way to alphabetic and then binary representation...
This is not true.


Sorry about the catalogue of 'errors', Jeff. I'll pass your findings on to 
the British Museum - you knowledge would appear to be an advance on their 
'Reading the Past' series. (By the way, try Cuneiform.)

Oh, and a thought about Morse code (which also codes numerals and 
puctuation) and the 'binary arithmetic' used in computing. How are the 
arithmetical operations represented if all the binary codes are numbers?

Micheal O Duill

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