<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">the difference between a high livel and low level programming is how close you are to the hardware and how much abstraction is going on.<div>on a scale from low to high, that woulde be for example:</div><div>assembly - C - Java/Python/whatever</div><div><br></div><div>max/pd are definitely high level, but especially they are a very particular kind of programming, sometimes referred to as dataflow programming.</div><div>it's very effective for quick prototyping and a complete pain in the ass for other things.</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 4, 2010, at 1:23 PM, steffen scholl wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><br>hello,<br><br>is max/pd a high-level programming language? and what is the difference between high- and low-level languages like C++?<br><br>best,<br>steffen.<br><hr id="stopSpelling"><br><br><hr>Künftig E-Mails über Hotmail<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://redirect.gimas.net/?n=M1007HMTL2" target="_new">ohne Werbung versenden!</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>_______________________________________________<br>microsound mailing list<br><a href="mailto:microsound@microsound.org">microsound@microsound.org</a><br><a href="http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound">http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>