Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 26/08/2024 01:48, Tim Rentsch wrote:
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It's been amusing reading a discussion of which languages are or
are not high level, without anyone offering a definition of what
the term means.  Wikipedia says, roughly, that a high-level
language is one that doesn't provide machine-level access (and IMO
that is a reasonable characterization).  Of course no distinction
along these lines is black and white - almost all languages have a
loophole or two - but I expect there is general agreement about
which languages clearly fail that test.  In particular, any
language that offers easy access to raw memory addresses (and both
C and C++ certainly do), is not a high-level language in the
Wikipedia sense.

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So, which language do you think is higher level, C++ or Python?
Where might Lisp fit in, or OCaml?

I find it hard to imagine that anyone cares about my answer to
this question.

Language 'level' is a linear concept, but the various characteristics
of languages are such that there is really a multidimensional gamut.

I think you're confusing the notions of "high-level" and "powerful".
For example, in the Wikipedia entry sense of the term, the original
BASIC is a high-level language, but I think most people would agree
that it is not a very powerful language.