On 2013-05-13, F?bio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
It is a tautology is disguise. When you use a low level language, low level details are relevant to the scope of your program. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
