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

James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

On 8/26/24 03:54, Michael S wrote:
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On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:48:14 -0700
Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> 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).

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I don't like this definition.  IMHO, what language does have is at
least as important as what it does not have for the purpose of
estimating its level.

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That's not a particularly useful response. [...]

If it communicated what Michael wanted to say, it served his
purposes, which makes it useful, whether you thought it was
useful or not.

One principle that should be kept in mind when you're defining a
term whose definition is currently unclear, is to decide what
statements you want to make about things described by that term.

A more important factor to keep in mind is what common usage
or usages there are, both current and historical.