Lauri Pietarinen wrote:
>Jan Hidders wrote:
>>
>>>>What makes you think that while-loops raise the level of abstraction?
>>>>
>>>What makes you think they don't?
>>
>>They are both imperative programming constructs.
>>
>That would impy that a Turing-machine program and a Java-program are on the
>same level of abstraction. They are both imperative programming constructs,
>are they not?
No. A transition table from a Turing machine is not what I would call an
imperative programming language. But anyway, you made the claim, you have to
provide the arguments.
Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 06:38:22 CST
