high-level

Am I "wasting" my time learning C and other low level stuff ?

I have just recently started learning C and the reason I did that was because frankly, I consider myself to be of a "less-developer" than the people who know and work with C. Thus I planned to start learning ASM, C, C++ and bought the K&R book and started pushing myself to learn the C Programming Language and up till now I'm doing great...

Is there a high-level language for the web?

Preamble To build dynamic web-sites, we to master at least four languages: HTML for the structure of web pages CSS for layout and design JavaScript for interactivity A language for business rules or dynamic driven data In addition, there's SQL for persistent storage, Memcache for sessions and caching, APIs for the many different con...

Any high-level, hardware-accelerated 3D engine?

I am programming in Flash for a long-time. It is interesting that most of the things, including open source libraries, are very high-level in the Flash world. It is great because we can build things up quickly. But Flash is too slow (I want to do CV stuff, visual effect, generative art etc). I have tried glut, Processing, OpenFrameworks...

Is there a high level language with an interpreter, dynamic compiler and static compiler(e.g. like the c++ compiler) along with a multimedia library?

The interpreter and dynamic compiler would be for testing/prototyping and when im done testing i use the static compiler. ...

What specific examples are there of knowing C making you a better high level programmer?

I know about the existance of question such as this one and this one. Let me explain. Afet reading Joel's article Back to Basics and seeing many similar questions on SO, I've begun to wonder what are specific examples of situations where knowing stuff like C can make you a better high level programmer. What I want to know is if there a...

Why do we need high-level languages?

I was teaching my wife C a few days ago and went on to teach her the basics of C++. Now my question is all programming languages have been devised so as to make our mode of communication with the computer easy right ? Else it would have been a chore communicating with them in machine language instructions, right ? So programming langu...

Difference between Machine code and Object Code

I'm in the middle of my a levels and im doing some revision for my Computing exam. I was wondering if someone could tell me what the difference is between machine code and object code. keep it it simple please. ...

Higher than high-level web frameworks or CMS's?

I'm looking for options that allow very high-level web site development with these special characteristics: not requiring the user to program in a complex programming language not requiring the user to use GUI-like administration areas allow the user to "program" in a lightweight markup language The last point is not only about look ...

Which programming languages aren't considered high-level?

In informatics theory I hear and read about high-level and low-level languages all time. Yet I don't understand why this is still relevant as there aren't any (relevant) low-level languages except assembler in use today. So you get: Low-level Assembler Definitely not low-level C BASIC FORTRAN COBOL ... High-level C++ Ruby Py...

Is there a javascript library that contains a rich set of very high level commonly used functions?

I find that many high level functions are missing in most well-known javascript libraries such as jquery, YUI...etc. Taking string manipulation as an example, startsWith, endsWith, contains, lTrim, rTrim, trim, isNullOrEmpty...etc. These function are actually very common ones. I would like to know if there exists a javascript library/ p...

What application virtual machines are written in high level languages?

What application virtual machines are out there that are written in higher level languages? C/C++ looks like the languages of choice (for obvious reasons). What I have found on google is at least two written in Java (both meta-circular) : JikesRVM and Maxine. Anything else that you have found? ...

Are Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Forth high level programming languages?

Are Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Forth high level programming languages? And if not, what where the first high level programming languages? What where the first object-oriented languages? ...

Is it possible to design a dynamic language without significant performance loss?

Is it possible to design something like Ruby or Clojure without the significant performance loss in many situations compared with C/Java? Does hardware design play a role? Edit: With significant I mean in an order of magnitudes, not just ten procent Edit: I suspect that delnan is correct with me meaning dynamic languages so I changed t...

How high should/will high-level languages go?

I know this is very abstract, however I believe it is very focused. There are plenty of high-level languages today: C#, Java, VB, Python, etc., all created to abstract away low-level complexity and provide a more user-friendly programming experience. High-level languages can reduce, and most of the time completely remove, the necessity ...