OpenEuphoria

Re: HI & LOW

• Posted by mountains at MINDSPRING.COM May 26, 1998
• 863 views

At 02:46 PM 5/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I think high-level = for example programming in EUPHORIA,PASCAL etc
>        low-level  = Assembeler (machinecode)
>
>at least this is my understanding
>
>regards Karlheinz

Perhaps it has to do with how much attention you have to pay
to the machine: If you have to worry about 8/16/32 bit numbers,
signed/unsigned/double..etc., searching for the end of strings,
stuff like that, then I call that a low-level language.
Oops, C++ fits that description.

Perhaps it has to do with how much code it takes to do a particular
task. I noticed a 2k com file on my drive, and the assembler
source was 25k. I'd call that low level. On the other hand,
have you ever seen how much code it takes to print "Hello World!"
in COBOL? (Don't forget the JCL!) Yet COBOL is considered more
or less a high level language.

Using either of these two criteria, Euphoria falls into the
category of "high level", I think.

Irv