Comment Re:what does open mean? (Score 1) 197
You're just making stuff up now. In no way are PHP and LISP mid level languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-level_programming_language -- Only machine code and ASM are low level languages, everything else is high level.
LISP is about as high level as you can get, with garbage collection, macros, and more abstractions than most other languages combined.
PHP, likewise, is interpreted, and even it's array datatype is quite a bit above the machine level memory array, supporting dynamic resizing and the like.
It's not about what you consider "low-level" and "high-level." There are definitions for these terms...
LISP is about as high level as you can get, with garbage collection, macros, and more abstractions than most other languages combined.
PHP, likewise, is interpreted, and even it's array datatype is quite a bit above the machine level memory array, supporting dynamic resizing and the like.
It's not about what you consider "low-level" and "high-level." There are definitions for these terms...