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> 8. A programming language is low level when its programs require
> attention to the irrelevant.
>
> So much a matter of debate. Indentation is irrelevant, why should
> Python programs pay attention to it? Block delimiters are irrelevant
> too, the interpreter should be able to figure them out from the code
> layout. But this one is absolutely right:

I think "irrelevant" in this context means stuff like memory management.

My fave was #7: "It is easier to write an incorrect program than
understand a correct one," which explains in large part why the wheel
is so often reinvented...

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