On 13 May 2013 19:48, "Neil Cerutti" <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > > 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
It's not a tautology in disguise. Irrelevant != low level. When low level details are relevant to the scope of my program, I use a low level language.
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