[Off topic] Software epigrams

[Fábio Santos]

On 13 May 2013 19:48, "Neil Cerutti" <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
>
> On 2013-05-13, Skip Montanaro <skip at 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.
>
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> Neil Cerutti
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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.
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