ABSTRACT
Having looked at computers and how they operate, we now turn to the problem of the representation of information-how do we represent the information we want to process. Recall any meaning a symbol may have depends on how it is processed; there is no inherent meaning to the bits the machine uses. In the synthetic language mentioned in Chapter 4 on the history of software, the breaking up of the instructions was pretty much the same for every code instruction and this is true for most languages; the “meaning” of any instruction is defined by the corresponding subroutine.
