On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> wrote: >> 8. A programming language is low level when its programs require >> attention to the irrelevant. >> >> So much a matter of debate. Indentation is irrelevant, why should >> Python programs pay attention to it? Block delimiters are irrelevant >> too, the interpreter should be able to figure them out from the code >> layout. But this one is absolutely right: > > I think "irrelevant" in this context means stuff like memory management.
Sure. That one's pretty clear (if you care about memory management, you want a low level language). But there's still plenty that are less clear. Though in generalities, I think I agree; paying attention to minutiae is the consequence of taking a lower-level language. It's just that the difference between relevant and irrelevant is hard to define. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
