• @SpacetimeMachine
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    17 months ago

    I mean, isn’t any program essentially a glorified calculator?

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      not really, a basic calculator doesn’t tend to have variables and stuff like that

      i say it’s a glorified calculator because it’s just getting input in the form of numbers (again, it has no clue what a language or word is) and spitting back out some numbers that are then reconstructed into words, which is precisely how we use calculators.