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mustpax on Aug 12, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore

Well, to the Von Neumann architecture, data and instructions are all the same. Just a matter of where the Program Counter points to.

Also both XML and XSLT are interpreted. Meaning a real program reads the source and manipulates the system accordingly. I really have no problem treating the two as equivalent.

sparky on Aug 12, 2009 [–]

For Princeton architectures, anyway :P http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Microprocessor_Design/Computer_...

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