Re: data & code

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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40b51e92$0$37789$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> x wrote:
> > Alfredo Novoa wrote:
> >>Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
> >>>I'm really curious what the huge distinction is (as
> >>>in "totally different").
> >>
> >>They have nothing in common.
> >>
> >>>Much of the data that I see queried is derived.
> >>
> >>And code is a way to specify the derivation rules.
> >>It has nothing to do with data.
> >
> > How do you call this:
> > 31 c0 b9 10 00 40 01 c0 49 e3 fb
>
> I don't know what Alfredo would call it.
> I'ld call it a meaningless string of characters.

Meaningless for you, but not for an 8086 microprocessor. You need the CODE to decipher it.

> It looks somewhat like a part of hexdump,
> and I might (if I were in another mood) even try
> to ASCII or EBCDIC *DECODE* it under that assumption.
> It might make sense in some language (probably english
> or some programming language in this context).
>
> As it is, it is neither code nor data.

Well, ASCII stands for American Standard CODE for Information Interchange

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