Re: Is Python higher level than Ada?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 1:36:51 AM UTC+1, Victor Porton wrote:
> Is the following statement correct?
> 
> "Python is a higher level programming language than Ada."

According to the classification of languages into "generations", both Ada and Python belong to the 3GL category:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-generation_programming_language

See also these for a better perspective from both sides of this classification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-generation_programming_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language

Ada and Python are different, sometimes in extreme sense (like static vs. dynamic typing), but I would not consider one of them to be "higher level" than the other.

> The purpose of my question is not to start a holy war,

This group is notoriously lazy in this regard. You might want to try the same question on some Python group instead. ;-)

> but to get better 
> understanding of what "higher level programming language" phrase may mean.

This: http://www.wolfram.com/language/video.html

:-)

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