On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:06 AM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 16, 7:37 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >> > When I tried to pin down what an irrelevant detail in a computer >> > program could be, I couldn't do it. I guess comment decorations, >> > maybe? But those would have no bearing on the level of problem >> > for which a programming language is most appropriate. >> >> Let me give you a real example. >> [snip] > > You are just saying (in specific detail) what I said, viz that the > programmer is one who 'relevates' ie sifts the relevant from the > irrelevant and a good programming language is one that gives good > relevating tools: > http://blog.languager.org/2013/02/c-in-education-and-software-engineering.html
Right. All I'm adding is a concrete example - which, I think, will be helpful to Neil, and perhaps to others too. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
