Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes... Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:56:36 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <864j71ufiz.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <20240825201124.000017a3@yahoo.com> <86msl05ctt.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20240826105456.0000150a@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:56:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3cdd2c972935d84ac5d0fafd9719092c"; logging-data="1051691"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18JC1eWXbzaAn4D9/Jy+Q+BR/6S+Pmuhzc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XqUUlvLnLqdbcCm7vMNaey8AlJw= sha1:02/wKGFahrmA5TgXyiPBYnwGsUk= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:388051 James Kuyper writes: > On 8/26/24 03:54, Michael S wrote: > >> On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:48:14 -0700 >> Tim Rentsch wrote: > > ... > >>> It's been amusing reading a discussion of which languages are or >>> are not high level, without anyone offering a definition of what >>> the term means. Wikipedia says, roughly, that a high-level >>> language is one that doesn't provide machine-level access (and IMO >>> that is a reasonable characterization). >> >> I don't like this definition. IMHO, what language does have is at >> least as important as what it does not have for the purpose of >> estimating its level. > > That's not a particularly useful response. [...] If it communicated what Michael wanted to say, it served his purposes, which makes it useful, whether you thought it was useful or not. > One principle that should be kept in mind when you're defining a > term whose definition is currently unclear, is to decide what > statements you want to make about things described by that term. A more important factor to keep in mind is what common usage or usages there are, both current and historical.