Timeline for I use many languages, but speak only one. What am I?
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| Jul 24, 2016 at 8:46 | comment | added | Nemo | @NobodyNada if there is an isomorphism between the two, it's the same. ;-) | |
| Jul 24, 2016 at 3:25 | comment | added | NobodyNada | @Nemo Assembly is a human-readable version of machine language that uses mnemonics for the opcodes. Assembly can be translated to machine code with an assembler, but the computer does not execute assembly directly. | |
| Jul 23, 2016 at 20:55 | comment | added | nhgrif | Computers absolutely are dull. They only do what they are told. And if they're not told anything, they do nothing. | |
| Jul 23, 2016 at 8:24 | comment | added | Nemo | Or you can say the one language is assembly. | |
| Jul 23, 2016 at 8:11 | comment | added | celtschk | The language a computer directly executes is, aptly, named "machine language". That it is stored in binary form is just because on our computers everything is stored in binary form. On a ternary computer, the machine language would be ternary. And a quantum computer would probably have a quantum machine language. | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 23:01 | comment | added | Chris | @DmitryNarkevich Binary is an alphabet, for which we have machine instructions as the language. | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 22:03 | comment | added | Dmiters | Binary is not a language, just as decimal isn't. | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 19:39 | comment | added | Areeb | @gtwebb Yeah I don't see commercial quantum computers coming anytime soon, so the current connotation is going to stick | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 19:35 | comment | added | gtwebb | @Areeb good point but I would argue that quantum computers are almost always referred to explicitly as "quantum". So a "computer" would generally be regarded as a classic (non-quantum) computer. | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 17:57 | comment | added | Areeb | And with the recent introduction of quantum computing, binary is no longer the only language computers can speak | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 17:56 | comment | added | Alex Rohr | @Sid it is the right general direction | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 17:38 | comment | added | Sid | @Alex Rohr Is he any close? Because I was thinking somewhat along the same lines... | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 17:37 | comment | added | Alex Rohr | Nope! but a good guess nonetheless! | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 17:32 | history | answered | gtwebb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |