From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.157.61.102 with SMTP id a93mr3278866otc.147.1479309837180; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:23:57 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.37.247 with SMTP id q110mr2544790ota.5.1479309837149; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:23:57 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!w132no203913ita.0!news-out.google.com!c26ni718itd.0!nntp.google.com!o1no204911ito.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:23:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=165.225.80.89; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.225.80.89 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is Python higher level than Ada? From: Maciej Sobczak Injection-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:23:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32343 Date: 2016-11-16T07:23:56-08:00 List-Id: 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 :-) -- Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com