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Comment by thomasmg

3 days ago

I wonder, how can a programming language have the productivity of a high-level language ("write like a high-level language"), if it has manual memory management? This just doesn't add up in my view.

I'm writing my own programming language that tries "Write like a high-level language, run like C.", but it does not have manual memory management. It has reference counting with lightweight borrowing for performance sensitive parts: https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang

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jhgb  3 days ago

C is literally a high level language.

  • throwaway17_17  3 days ago

    Seriously, in the discussion happening in this thread C is clearly not a high-level language in context.

    I get your statement and even agree with it in certain contexts. But in a discussion where high-level languages are presumed (in context) to not have memory management, looping constructs are defined over a semantics inferred range of some given types, overloading of functions (maybe even operators), algebraic datatypes, and other functional language mixins: C most certainly IS NOT a high level language.

    This is pedantic to the point of being derailing and in some ways seemed geared to end the discussion occurring by sticking a bar in the conversations spokes.

    • saidnooneever  2 days ago

      glad you bring up context in this note. i find C high level too but u are right, in a comparisson you can still say its really low level.

      C was coined originally as high level because the alternatives were things like assembler. a term rooted in comparisson more than anything.

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