Are higher level programming languages harder or more important that lower level languages since the level is more...

Are higher level programming languages harder or more important that lower level languages since the level is more? What is the highest level language I can learn? Will learning high level languages maximize my celery?

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Hebrew, it's the highest you can get, both technically and spiritually

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Performance/watt is now the most important thing in "real" programming to keep costs down. Low level programming is in more demand than ever.

Legit answer here. In terms of usefulness, high level languages generally exist to abstract the hardware specifics on the platforms its programs can run on. For example, if you were to write an Android app to just display the camera feed it would be able to run on virtually any device running any Android version equal to or higher than the API you used.

Same with Java/JVM programs - one build of one source can run on any system running the right version of JRE/JDK.

Lower level languages, like C for example, do not abstract nearly as much of the underlying system or hardware. Best example of this is the heap and memory management - the programmer has to manually allocate memory for certain things such as data buffers, use pointers to reference them, and eventually free the allocated memory. That's not to say C doesn't abstract anything - the C standard library exists to provide methods to manage memory, access the filesystem, provide data types and methods to work with them, etc.

Then you get to assembly where you are literally just passing the CPU instructions.

Anyway, a lot of people see low level languages like C more efficient than high level languages because the abstraction creates unecessary bloat. That's only half true - lower level languages generally require the programmer to write more complex code, whether to support more platforms/systems or just because they have to handle certain things manually, so something simple like reading a text file and printing its contents would be more complex in C than in, say, Python. As the program being written gets more and more complex, the more likely it is that bugs and instability get introduced, and the less of the hardware that is abstracted the easier it is for that instability to cause issues with other parts of the system.

Honestly regardless of what language you're using you should still at least somewhat understand how the libraries work and what your code is doing.

lower lever doesn't mean harder, assembly is shitty easy as fuck but only a bunch of people understands haskell which is very high level.

> the programmer has to manually allocate memory
>Then you get to assembly where you are literally just passing the CPU instructions.
> low level languages like C more efficient than high level languages because the abstraction creates unecessary bloat.

You have no fucking idea about what you are talking about since there is high level assembly and not all assemblers targets a CPU.

>on any system running the right version of JRE/JDK.
GOTCHA

disagree.

higher level languages allow you to do harder computing tasks with fewer lines of code (pretty much that's what they're for). so that makes them "easier"

take C as an example of a lower-level language, instead of asm. you can tell the machine exactly what to do, in a sort of "easy" way, but try to do something like solve a symbolic equation (like y=x^2 -1 ), and you're fucked. mathematica or python+sympy make it super easy.

>try to do something like solve a symbolic equation (like y=x^2 -1 ), and you're fucked
are we going to pretend that programming the basic rules of algebra are that difficult?