Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-06-07 Thread Jan Claeys
Op Mon, 26 May 2008 15:49:33 -0400, schreef Dan Upton: > The point about them looking very little like x86/ARM/etc chips is the > important part though--IIRC, part of the failure of Java machines was > lousy support for preexisting code, due to the optimizations for Java > bytecode, and I expect t

Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-05-30 Thread Dan Upton
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:49:33 -0400, Dan Upton wrote: > >> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't know if it would necessarily look like the CPython VM, except >> for the decode stage (this b

Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-05-30 Thread Henrique Dante de Almeida
On May 26, 6:06 pm, Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:49:33 -0400, Dan Upton wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know if it would necessarily look like the CPython VM, except > > for the decode stage (this being said with

Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-05-29 Thread Paul Miller
On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:49:33 -0400, Dan Upton wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if it would necessarily look like the CPython VM, except > for the decode stage (this being said without any knowledge of the > CPython implementation, but with more

Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-05-28 Thread Avowkind
On May 29, 5:32 am, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Avowkind wrote: > > On May 27, 6:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> (might not be the right forum for this but...) > > >> what is the definition of a highlevel-language? > > >> wel

Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-05-28 Thread Stef Mientki
Avowkind wrote: On May 27, 6:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (might not be the right forum for this but...) what is the definition of a highlevel-language? well there isnt one specifically and wikipedia and the like gives just a very general description obv you can say it abstracts away

Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-05-28 Thread Robert Brown
"inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like to think of a language that would combine low-level and high-level > features to be used at the programmer's whim. C--, High Level Assembly, and > C++ with in-line assembly are examples, but none of them come as high-level > as Python. Other possib

Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-05-27 Thread Henrique Dante de Almeida
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 lang

Re: definition of a highlevel language?

2008-05-27 Thread Avowkind
On May 27, 6:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (might not be the right forum for this but...) > > what is the definition of a highlevel-language? > > well there isnt one specifically and wikipedia and the like gives just > a very general description obv you can say it abstr