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0 pointszkomp7y ago0 comments

Maybe true but I think the Java example is not that good. Java is still not that different from C. Java is more like a decendant to C and C++ - and to be honest both languages force you to pay attention to lots of irrelevant "low-level" detail, fictionally low-level since its not actually the machine but language itself (that is stuck in the PDP11 mental mode...)

Compared to something different like Erlang, Haskell, Lisp

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dgreensp7y ago

High-level and low-level are relative, to be sure, but Java is definitely considered higher-level than C -- it was designed to target a virtual machine, for example, while C was designed to target real machines -- so I think it illustrates the article's point perfectly.

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0 pointszkomp7y ago0 comments

Compared to something different like Erlang, Haskell, Lisp

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dgreensp7y ago

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