Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: what is high-level? Message-ID: <760@gloria.UUCP> Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 13:40:07 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.760 Posted: Mon Dec 31 13:40:07 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:45:18 EST References: <83@mit-athena.ARPA> <235@gumby.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Confuser Science Lines: 18 ["I say high, You say low, ... "] Some other definitions: 1. X is "higher-level" than Y if it has fewer detractors among professors of computer science. 2. X is "higher-level" than Y if fewer people believe it should be stamped out. 3. X is "higher-level" than Y if it was invented as a substitute for Y. Incidentally, most people use "higher-level" not as a comparative but merely as a positive: "Algol is a higher-level language." Higher than what? Just "higher." -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel