g-frank@gumby.UUCP (01/14/85)
I think John Chambers is missing the point a bit when he talks about
the misuse of the term "high-level" in this ongoing discussion. Of course
it's silly. Of course there is no absolute solution to the question of
who's higher level.
The point is, I think, that this "high-level" business has served as
a sort of Rorschach (is THAT how it's spelled?) test for the more interesting
question of how people think about programming languages. The discussion of
"Pascal as a systems programming language" going on in net.lang.c (funny
place for it) is similar. Both have let us see what people like in their
languages, and how they see the task of programming.
If it takes off-the-subject mumbo-jumbo to bring out such interesting
insights, I'll grit my teeth and live with it.
--
Dan Frank
"good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance."