From: esmond.pitt@bigpond.com   
      
   fermineutron wrote:   
      
   > It is generally the belief that high level languages are slower than   
   > the low level languages. It seems to me that there are 2 possible   
   > reasons for it.   
      
   There is one very simple reason for it, and that is that the higher the   
   level of the HLL, the more it conceals the true costs in time and space   
   of the operations you are encoding in the language. When you're down   
   near the metal (the silicon) in assembly or some 'LLL' you're very close   
   to the costs.   
      
   APL is the classical example.   
      
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