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Discussion on: Explain "Memory Safe Programming Languages" Like I'm Five Please

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Henry Zhang

1) I'm not exactly sure what I mean either 🤷‍♂️, it's just the way I've interpreted low to high level language development, as in they are built on the foundations made by low level languages so that now the thousands of files of boilerplate-esque code lying underneath HLLs allow them to be typed in a much simpler and human friendly way. Both a "stand on the shoulders of giants" way and extra filter to help translate between human letters and binary electrical signals.

2) Ahh I see, that then paints the picture for me the other way around: high level initiates the action, to be filtered down into lower level and ultimately machine assembly then binary. That makes sense. I don't understand enough at these levels of what is going on specifically, what specific processes executed by what specific code, to make sense of it beyond that though.

Thanks for the advice, it helps clear some things up