Kyle wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:32:12 +0100, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 
>> This one amused me though:
>>
>> "The lower the level of the code language, the less processing cycles 
>> are required to get something done."
>>
>> Obviously this is demonstratably false.
> 
> Is it?  Please explain.  Depending on the optimization capabilities of the compiler
(or interpreter), and the capabilities of the programmer, it can definitely be true.
> 

That's just it, isn't it? It *can* be true - which implies that it *can* 
be false as well.

I'm not going to argue that it *tends* to be true - I'm just saying that 
it is *not* absolutely true as the statement quoted implies.

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