On Sunday, 2 September 2012 06:06:06 UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 10:10 AM, John Ladasky > > <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > I haven't seen this joke on the Net in years, does anyone still remember it? > > > > > > "C combines the power of assembly language with the readability and > > maintainability of assembly language." > > > > Seen it, and it has validity. But I'd rather work with C than actual > > assembly any day. And these days, C code is just a bunch of directives > > specifying how a compiler should build a program; optimizing compilers > > add, remove, reorder, whatever they think fit. It's a pretty high > > level language now. > > > > ChrisA
I thought it was like this: assembly a low level language C a medium level language Java a high level language Python a very-high level language -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
