Re: Software epigrams

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:06 AM, rusi wrote: > On May 16, 7:37 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Neil Cerutti 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

Re: Software epigrams

2013-05-16 Thread rusi
On May 16, 7:37 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Neil Cerutti wrote: > > On 2013-05-16, F?bio Santos wrote: > >> And in Java we have factories, builders and builderfactories. > >> What's so relevant about them? Java is high level, no? > > > When I tried to pin down w

Re: Software epigrams

2013-05-15 Thread rusi
On May 14, 8:08 am, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2013 04:12:53 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > >>> 8. A programming language is low level when its programs require > >>> attention to the irrelevant. > >> I think "irrelevant" in this