Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
That does not in any way impugn C..;.
: quite the contrary, given enough time, C is better suited for modeling
: on a von Neumann processor, period.
What has that got to do with abstraction?
Everything, really.
Folks seem to think that because they are doing abstraction at a
high-level (well, they never maybe programmed at a lower level) that
abstraction somehow 'requires' a high level language. (not true)
Back in the day, our abstractions were encapsulated not in source, but
in psuedo-code, flow-charts, diagrams, and sometimes pretty pictures. It
all ended up in assembly and machine code.
Today, high-level languages like Python (and others) allow programmers
to place some of their abstraction into their source code directly. This
does not make the high-level language any more 'suited' to abstraction
than any other lower-level language; because the abstraction is a mental
process not a language feature. It all ends up in assembly and machine
code.
kind regards,
m harris
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