On 15 May 2013 18:29, "Neil Cerutti" <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > > 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. > >> >>
(...) > > 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 I don't see it that way. I think relevance and level are two unrelated concepts. For example, in python you are handling irrelevant things if you are trying to start a program and redirecting its standard output into another program's standard input instead of just using the shell and a pipe to do it. And in C you are just at the right level to write something for a microchip, but then again you are doing a load of irrelevant stuff if you need to work numbers larger than the maximum permitted.
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