3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
9:59 a.m.
Depends who you ask. I was told by a guy with 3 years of Java programming under his belt
that Java is much more powerful than assembler, after all, Java is object oriented! ;-)
Anyway this ought to be an interesting subthread. I'll make the popcorn!
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From: Chuck Guzis
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On 3 Jan 2012 at 2:28, Richard wrote:
It's not really a fair comparison as we expect a
"modern" language to
do much more than FORTRAN 66.
Do what, exactly? Are you saying that simple languages can't "do"
what more complicated ones do? Does the simplest---machine code, do
less than, any HLL, modern or ancient? Is C less capable than
Python?
--Chuck