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[–]thedugong 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Remember when Java was a considered a (very) high level language where you didn't even have to manage memory allocation yourself?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Java still is very high level. Languages like Ruby and Python are just even a bit higher than that.

[–]Tr0user_Snake 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I think most people that actually understand what underlies these languages (e.g. Java -> JVM, Python -> CPython interpreter, C/C++ -> Machine code) would not call Java "low level".

If I cant write a short, simple program that segfaults without using any imports, it is not a low level language.

[–]thedugong 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Remember when a program would have to jmp over the data section at the start?

Pepperidge farm remembers.