Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!jejones From: jejones@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: High-levelity Message-ID: <5400017@ea.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 14:30:00 EST Article-I.D.: ea.5400017 Posted: Sun Dec 30 14:30:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 02:40:51 EST References: <83@mit-athena.UUCP> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:mit-athena:-8300:ea:5400017:000:276 Nf-From: ea!jejones Dec 30 13:30:00 1984 Re high-level = able to express things in fewer symbols: how much of C's advantage over Pascal, etc., would disappear if one behaved as the Algol 6x reports request, and consider BEGIN, END, etc. to be one symbol? i.e. are we counting characters or tokens? James Jones