On 06/11/2010 01:21 PM, Warp wrote:

>    How about instead of having just the false dichotomy of "low-level" and
> "high-level" languages, there could be more options. Perhaps C could be
> a "middle-level" language (because it's higher-level than asm but lower-level
> than eg. Lisp).

I think most people today accept that there are highER and lowER levels 
of programming languages. Machine code is obviously the lowest level of 
all; authorities disagree about the exact ordering of the remaining 
languages.

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