On 2013-05-15, F?bio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It is a tautology is disguise. When you use a low level >> language, low level details are relevant to the scope of your >> program. > > 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.
If you need numbers larger than the maximum permitted then all the code you write to handle them is relevant. If I want to bake bread I hope I don't have to till a garden, plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, and grind the wheat. But gardening is relevant to bread baking weather or not I do it. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
