Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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.

  Could there be, in some cases, some ego-boosting involved, of the kind
"my language is higher-level than yours"?

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                                                          - Warp

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