On 2013-05-13, 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.
I thought I liked that one at first, but upon reflection it speciously inserts the word "irrelevant" in order to avoid stating a tautology: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to low level details. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
