Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams

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From	Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Subject	Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams
Date	15 May 2013 18:27:39 GMT
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On 2013-05-15, F?bio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is a tautology is disguise. When you use a low level
>> language, low level details are relevant to the scope of your
>> program.
>
> I don't see it that way. I think relevance and level are two
> unrelated concepts.
>
> For example, in python you are handling irrelevant things if
> you are trying to start a program and redirecting its standard
> output into another program's standard input instead of just
> using the shell and a pipe to do it.
>
> And in C you are just at the right level to write something for
> a microchip, but then again you are doing a load of irrelevant
> stuff if you need to work numbers larger than the maximum
> permitted.

If you need numbers larger than the maximum permitted then all
the code you write to handle them is relevant.

If I want to bake bread I hope I don't have to till a garden,
plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, and grind the wheat. But
gardening is relevant to bread baking weather or not I do it.

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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[Off topic] Software epigrams Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-13 09:20 +0000
  Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams "marduk@python.net" <marduk@python.net> - 2013-05-13 10:56 -0400
  Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 03:47 +1000
  Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-13 13:02 -0500
    Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-13 18:42 +0000
      Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 21:49 +0100
        Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-15 17:24 +0000
          Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-15 18:49 +0100
            Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-15 18:27 +0000
              Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 01:21 +0100
                Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-16 14:23 +0000
                Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 00:37 +1000
                Re: Software epigrams rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 08:06 -0700
                Re: Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 01:19 +1000
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  Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 04:12 +1000
    Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2013-05-14 03:08 +0000
      Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 13:28 +1000
      Re: Software epigrams rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-15 20:55 -0700

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