Re: text equation

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Oh dear oh dear oh dear!  Where to begin!
>
> You said "To me, the higher level the language, the more
> machine code is produced for each line of source."  This
> is one source of problems for you since you later admit
> that you don't know where to fit interpreted languages,
> like Perl and Rexx.  Add Java to that and you'll really
> see how inadequate your definition is!
>

Yes, exactly! Since java first interprets, then compiles the interpreted code in
to byte code, where would he put java???
How can you even consider basing the level of a language on how much machine 
code
it can be converted to? How many times in the last few years have you or any of
us gone to the trouble of optimizing the code at that level anyway? Unless you
regularly run your programs through a decompiler like ice.
To me the only way to gauge the level of a language is how much code DON'T I 
have
to write. If I don't have to worry about memory allocation, and cleanup (and if
this is well implemented by the compiler, or interpreter) then I consider it to
be very high level. It ain't called rapid prototyping for nuthin.

If a language like perl is not considered a high level language, where does RPG
fit in your scheme?

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L. S. Russell Programmer/Analyst
Datrek Professional Bags, Inc.
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