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And the parent's point is that there should be a distinction in level between Haskell and C, for example.



Then we need a finer grained taxonomy instead of the current model that is essentially: machine code;c/forth; literally everything else.

I mean that should be blindingly obvious anyway looking at the actual history of programming languages and CPUs but here we are in 2018 insisting that we must have exactly three categories with exactly the definitions of: assembly;C/forth; everything else.




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