The legacy definitions:
- hardware ISA abstraction
- some help to increase "productivity"
Modern definitions:
- planned obsolescence mechanism.
- the more complex is the syntax, the more dev lock-in and dependency on ultra complex compiler you get.
- still provide an increase in "productivity", but for trash-able software as we now know that for most software, development time does not matter compared to life cycle time.
- some help to increase "productivity"
Modern definitions:
- planned obsolescence mechanism.
- the more complex is the syntax, the more dev lock-in and dependency on ultra complex compiler you get.
- still provide an increase in "productivity", but for trash-able software as we now know that for most software, development time does not matter compared to life cycle time.
- development comfort.