[Off topic] Software epigrams
Fábio Santos
fabiosantosart at gmail.com
Wed May 15 20:21:52 EDT 2013
On 15 May 2013 19:33, "Neil Cerutti" <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
>
> On 2013-05-15, F?bio Santos <fabiosantosart at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It is a tautology is disguise. When you use a low level
> >> language, low level details are relevant to the scope of your
> >> program.
> >
> > I don't see it that way. I think relevance and level are two
> > unrelated concepts.
> >
> > For example, in python you are handling irrelevant things if
> > you are trying to start a program and redirecting its standard
> > output into another program's standard input instead of just
> > using the shell and a pipe to do it.
> >
> > And in C you are just at the right level to write something for
> > a microchip, but then again you are doing a load of irrelevant
> > stuff if you need to work numbers larger than the maximum
> > permitted.
>
> If you need numbers larger than the maximum permitted then all
> the code you write to handle them is relevant.
>
> If I want to bake bread I hope I don't have to till a garden,
> plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, and grind the wheat. But
> gardening is relevant to bread baking weather or not I do it.
>
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> Neil Cerutti
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Then memory management t is relevant to every python program even though
it's done by the interpreter?
And in Java we have factories, builders and builderfactories. What's so
relevant about them? Java is high level, no?
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