On May 26, 3:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > what is the definition of a highlevel-language? > There's no formal definition of high level language. Thus, the following are true:
1) You can safely treat it as buzzword 2) You can't formally define a level hierarchy of languages 3) You can't formally classify any language as high, low, etc. level 4) Language theory literature ignore this term, so it's also irrelevant 5) You can use it to vaguely criticize a language that you don't like as being too high/low level :-) 6) You shouldn't try to label a language as high level or low level or something else without a context 7) You probably should ignore this term Now we have a problem. How can we define the "easiness" of a language ? I think a good way to do this is simply list the language architecture/paradigms and philosophy and let the listener decide by himself if it's an "easy" language or not. For a great example, see the description of python at: http://www.python.org/about/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list